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...Quakers will run their Ivy winning streak to 20 with a 24-14 win over Princeton...
...question coming into this contest is how the Bears will respond after coming within a minute of ending Penn’s four-year home conference winning streak. Without a steady quarterback, Brown could be primed for a let-down game. But running back Nick Hartigan has been a rock for the Bears, and his 179-yard performance against Penn—the league’s top rushing defense—should carry over into a solid showing versus a weaker Yale run defense...
...victory of President George W. Bush will officially destroy the predictive abilities of the Washington Redskins. Up until Tuesday, the 71-year-old streak of a Redskins game forecasting the outcome of the Presidential Election held true—if Washington won their final home game before the Election, the story went, then the incumbent party would win, and vice-versa. No longer. The Redskins lost 28-14 to the Green Bay Packers last Sunday...
...original is back. Michael Keaton is the Dark Knight detective in Tim Burton’s adaptation of the classic comic series versus his classic nemesis The Joker. It was the beginning of the current streak of giving art-house directors the key to studio franchises, that has led to project like Bryan Singer’s X-Men and Christopher Nolan’s new version of Batman. The key is Anton Furst’s remarkable production design; there is nothing quite like the Gotham City he designed with Burton. Anchoring the magic is Jack Nicholson?...
Writer-director Alexander Payne and co-writer Jim Taylor seemed on a winning streak with Election and About Schmidt: both were inventive and quirky, two qualities their newest collaboration, Sideways, unfortunately lacks. The film follows Miles (Paul Giamatti), a burned-out teacher and struggling novelist, and his best friend Jack (Thomas Haden Church) on a road trip through California’s wine country organized to make the most of Jack’s last days of bachelorhood. The trip in Miles’ mind is about tasting great wines and in Jack’s is about getting laid...