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...Beanpot,” Sifers said of BC. “So right now it’s payback. It’s a huge game for us.”HARVARD 5, RPI 1After a sluggish start, the Crimson rallied behind Vaillancourt to pull away down the stretch. Harvard fell behind 1-0 midway through the second period but tied the score later in the frame and used a natural hat trick from Vaillancourt to bury the Engineers in the third period.It was Vaillancourt’s third hat trick of the season and her second against RPI, bumping...
...handed dunk on a breakaway, after Harris had helped force a turnover on the other end. The stuff re-tied the score at 49 apiece and helped fire up the unusually raucous fans in Harvard’s student section. Those fans were on their feet down the stretch, again thanks to Harris’s play. With Harvard leading by 59-58 and 3:15 remaining, Cornell’s 6’10 center Andrew Naeve got open down low for what looked like an easy two points. But as the big man went up for the dunk...
...earnings of $600 million derive from its wells in Africa, Asia, the North Sea and Canada, as well as the Gulf of Mexico. That it has prospered as El Dorado struggled spurred Murphy to action, says chairman and CEO Claiborne Deming. "This not a booming metropolis by any stretch," Deming notes, alluding to the toll that lumber imports have taken on the area's timber economy and that job exports have squeezed from its manufacturing sector. In pledging $50 million over the next five years for the El Dorado Promise, the company not only can "give back" to the community...
...could see myself in some sawmill," says Mario Navarrete, 18, whose two older brothers labor as sheet metal and chemical workers, respectively. Two decades after immigrating from the Mexico City suburb of Michoacan, Javier Navarrete is still stretching his logging company wages to provide for his wife and the four children, including Mario, who remain at home. College, he told his progeny, was too much of a stretch. "Sorry, but there's no money," Mario remembers his father saying. He also remembers his father's amazement when told that, yes, there was money. "He didn't cry. I wanted...
...mystery. After we stand together for 20 minutes in the center of the sprawling sala, Seracini looks at me with a twinkle in his eye. "I know I haven't told you where it is yet," he says. He then indicates a 250-sq.-ft. area on the eastern stretch of the Vasari mural, behind which, he asserts, lies the masterpiece. Having looked at sketches and copies of Anghiari, I strain to tap into an inner X-ray to see through the mural to the Leonardo behind. The original, a Renaissance forebear of Pablo Picasso's Guernica, was described...