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...hate relationship between a spinster and her domineering mother - won the then 26-year-old a handful of awards and the first of many Tony nominations. Since then, he has been selling out theaters from Broadway to the West End with seven plays, all written in a 10-month spurt during a bout of unemployment...
...have been inserting itself into a part of Iraq that we don't know very well-the south-and taking sides against what is probably the most popular mass movement in Shi'ite Iraq. But the Petraeus battle plan apparently includes an anti-Sadrist move, which may mean a spurt of violence as widespread and vicious as the worst of the Sunni insurgency. Is that why the general wants a "pause" in the U.S. withdrawal this summer...
...opening period, the Big Green closed the first half on a 22-10 run to give Dartmouth a 42-30 lead at the break. The Big Green netted four first-half three pointers, including back-to-back treys as part of an 8-0 spurt with just over three minutes remaining in the opening frame. On the game, Dartmouth outrebounded Harvard, 39-29, pulling down 17 offensive rebounds to Harvard’s nine. “We just didn’t bring it,” junior guard Niki Finelli said. “We were...
...Harvard goes on a quick 5-0 spurt, capped by a three from Jeremy Lin (Did you expect anyone else?) [Yale 75, Harvard...
...runs the free-market Ethan Allen Institute. An influx of urban refugees and hippie escapists from New York and Massachusetts in the 1960s and 1970s changed everything. Soon Vermont had ski resorts, billboard bans, chi-chi restaurants, yoga retreats, and liberal Democrats. "That was the kickoff for our spurt into the future," McLaughry says, with more than a hint of disapproval...