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...there is no better example of her fortitude than this past weekend's stellar performance against Ivy-foe Princeton...
...nostalgic about the public schools of the city's past, they do so with some justification. Although class sizes were larger and schools were segregated by law into white and "colored" facilities, attendance was high. In 1950, average daily attendance at Baltimore's senior high schools was a stellar 92% for both black and white children. In 1954, according to city school records, 83.1% of white high school seniors "achieved" in algebra; fully 99.2% of black students did likewise...
Linden had another stellar game, completing 21 of 37 passes for 272 yards with one touchdown against one interception. He also displayed his athletic ability, running the ball for 33 yards and three rushing touchdowns...
Portishead's groundbreaking debut album, Dummy (1994), along with producer-rapper Tricky's Maxinquaye (1995), helped define the nascent genre of trip-hop, an arty European variant of hip-hop characterized by dreamy lyrics and lounging, lulling song structures. Portishead is another stellar work. While Dummy's sound was sweetened with recognizable melodic flavors drawn from R. and B. and gospel, the new album is stranger, more unsettling, more sour. Vocalist Beth Gibbons' voice is distorted on many of the tracks, stretched thin and left floating high and parched over shards of melody and jagged bits of rhythm. One song...
While its offense was solid and precise, it was the Bucknell's defense that ultimately dealt the Crimson its first loss of the season. After a stellar 20-point first quarter, Harvard was held to no points and very few yards throughout the remainder of the game...