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Thoughts of zero points on the weekend hung heavily over the Crimson bench for another four minutes until sophomore Matt Scorsune broke the spell with the equalizer...
Remember the good old days when abbreviations did not have to spell out some silly word? Think N.A.A.C.P. or AT&T or TWA. Now, it seems, every new organization or product title is contorted to spell out some annoying acronym. Here are a few recent examples...
...With Others has to be depressing: death is only how the story ends. As the literature of this emerging genre insists, the characters are far more important than the fate that eventually befalls them. The novel's first character is the narrator, writer Hartley Mims, jr., who chooses to spell junior "with a lowercase letter because it's quirky and who "planned on becoming a New Yorker when [he] was eight." His story begins when he moves to the Big Apple from Falls, North Carolina in 1980 to pursue a career as a bona fide starving artist. A true writer...
...even greater tragedy is that the Grisham-studio team has swept up many a prominent director in its platitudes. Sydney Pollack (Out of Africa, The Firm), Alan Pakula (Sophie's Choice, The Pelican Brief), and Joel Schumacher (Falling Down, A Time to Kill) have fallen prey to the Grisham spell...
...season was the last in which Harvard won nine games, a dry spell which a win tomorrow would end. Not only did the squad win a national title in an undefeated season (9-0-1) but it also won the Rose Bowl, beating Oregon...