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...stiff competition from the Ivy teams may be a surprise to some I-AA fans and Lehigh fans, but not to our coaching staff,” Lehigh coach Pete Lembo wrote in an e-mail. “Most of us have coached in the Ivy League before coming to Lehigh and know full well just how talented and well-coached these teams are. If you look back to our team’s success over the last five years, many of our closest games have been against Ivy League foes...
Porter overcame not only stiff competition but also damage to his boat’s hull resulting from the accident...
...matter how well they pout and grin, there's one thing all child actors have to be able to do: relax. If you place an ordinary kid opposite Mel Gibson or Susan Sarandon and yell "action," he'll get as stiff and shaky as a screen door in a gale. Rory and Kieran Culkin, younger brothers of Home Alone star Macaulay, don't know from stiff. In this month's Igby Goes Down, in which they play the same prep-school rebel at different points in his life, they seem as at ease on camera as most people...
...men’s team contended with the challenging Course at Yale this weekend. While the course poses enough obstacles on its own, the Crimon also faced stiff opposition from around the country. The University of Rhode Island pulled away with the win while Yale placed second on its own turf...
...Figures in a Landscape (1931-1932) by the Russian Kazimir Malevich. Malevich wrote on color theory in painting, stressing its link to the spiritual. He saw his paintings as icons, channels to another reality; their colors did not need to be realistic. Who are these masked women stiff against a striped landscape as flat as the backdrop in a photographer's studio? Perhaps they are people in the new earth Malevich has seen, one colored by mystery, self-possession and a bucolic beauty. What emotion does the work convey? The innocent shock of another world of color...