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...marathon was not all wind, rain, and sweat. Halfway through the race, participants reached the “Wellesley Scream Tunnel”—the stretch of the course that runs past the all-women’s Wellesley College. Every year, Wellesley students line up along this section of the course to scream and cheer while holding up signs...
...Infante was an ornament of Mexico's Golden Age (La é poca de Oro del Cine Mejicano), a two-decade stretch of potent moviemaking. While the U.S. industry was importing Latin Americans like Ricardo Montalban, Carmen Miranda, José Iturbi and Fernando Lamas, Mexican beauty Dolores del Rio left Hollywood and returned home to join such new stars as Cantinflas, Pedro Armend?riz, Mar?a Félix and Infante's friendly rival in the singing hunk sweepstakes, Jorge Negrete. Emilio "El Indio" Fern?ndez was directing movies that won international prizes, like the Cannes Palme d'Or. A renegade from Franco...
...penalty kill. Junior Alex Meintel was awarded the Donald Angier Trophy as the team’s most improved player. After two seasons in which the forward, marred by injuries, struggled with consistency, Meintel became one of the Crimson’s primary offensive weapons down the stretch, tallying 13 goals in a 15-game span. Freshmen Alex Biega and Doug Rogers shared the George Percy Award as the team’s top rookies, mirroring the defenseman-forward split of the team’s co-captains. Biega earned an ECAC All-Rookie Team nod, and Rogers was Harvard?...
...role: horror film star. “This is obviously not the kind of thing that comes my way quite often,” says Wilson of his role in “Vacancy,” which also stars Kate Beckinsale. The move is something of a stretch for an actor who prides himself primarily on the cult films of his earlier career. “Sometimes people say, ‘Why don’t you do more stuff like ‘The Tenenbaums’ and ‘Bottle Rocket’ as opposed...
Even if Lieberman’s stretch across the aisle is not just for show, the time has passed when it was necessary that senators be elected for their superior wisdom. In the age of mass media and widespread information, senators have a duty to represent the beliefs of the people who voted for them—an obligation Lieberman shuns in order to protect his own political capital...