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...time. ?Are we late?? asked the 61-year-old songwriter and 1960s icon, from under a motorcycle helmet. ?I thought we were right on time.? It was noon, five hours before the start of 48th Annual Grammy Awards telecast, and Stone sat, placidly, in the trailer car of a stretch purple motorcycle in the parking lot of a Beverly Hills mini-mall. Several hours later, the man known as the J.D. Salinger of funk emerged onstage at the Staples Center in Los Angeles for his first live performance since...
Steel’s writing experience and editing did not turn “Sex” into a quality piece of literature by any stretch of the imagination, but it is exactly what it was meant to be: a predictable, easy-to-read novel that gives women a hero who is not quite Mr. Darcy—ok, not even close—but is still rich enough, and with good enough taste in wine, to make things a bit interesting...
...PENN The score Yale 16, Penn 1 was about as much a surprise as the absolute beating the Quakers handed out down the stretch in The Palestra. 2. CORNELL The Big Red pulled off the home sweep of Harvard and Dartmouth and finds itself right back in the midst of the title hunt. 3. HARVARD Two tough early season road losses make a home sweep of Penn and Princeton this weekend a must, if the Crimson wants to stay in the race. 4. PRINCETON The Tigers might be 3-1 in league play, but remember that this is still...
...driven scientific male who struggles to defeat death and the beatific, artistic female who courageously accepts it. Without the star wattage of real people to put over the chemistry of the characters, the authors never build up a convincing case for the timelessness of this relationship. They need to stretch out the quiet bits, but, even at over 160 pages, the pace has the accelerated feel of compressed film script...
...down low, give them a pump fake and go through them,” Cornell forward Jason Hartford said of Stehle and Cusworth. “That’s what we tried doing all night, [and it] paid off down the stretch.”Even with the three foul-outs, coach Sullivan and the players were most upset with the call that gave the ball back to Cornell with 13 seconds to play. With Beal holding the ball for junior guard Jim Goffredo in the attempt to set up a last-second isolation, Big Red guard Graham...