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...From that point on, the Crimson controlled the flow of the game by constantly pressing forward into Cornell’s half. Vaillancourt scored just 2:37 into the second period and combined with Brine to set up Cahow’s close-range power-play strike later in the period...
...both sides remained scoreless through the first period.St. Cloud State finally found the net late in the second, on a power-play tally from Ryan Lasch with 1:34 left in the frame. Senior Jon Pelle tied up the game early in the third period with a man-advantage strike of his own, finishing off a pass from junior Brian McCafferty.The Huskies regained control of the game on another power-play goal from Lasch, taking a 2-1 lead. Only 21 seconds later, St. Cloud State scored again, crossing a shot from the right into the goal. The Crimson...
...think of one reason the Golden Globe Awards show might get a low Nielsen rating this year: it won't be on TV. That's a real possibility, since the Writers Guild, on strike since Nov. 5, has announced it will picket the Jan. 13 ceremony if it's aired on NBC or even as a webcast. (Especially as a webcast: the income that studios derive from the Internet, and don't share with writers, is one of the sticking points of the strike.) And if the writers haul their placards to the Beverly Hilton Hotel, the glamorous stars...
Even if the strike is settled and the show is broadcast--even if Clooney and Jolie are there and Steven Spielberg's lifetime-achievement award is presented by J.D. Salinger and Thomas Pynchon in Fendi gowns--there's another reason that viewership may be slack for the Globes, and also for the Academy Awards six weeks later: because the prizes will go to films that relatively few people have seen...
...contemporary—in fact, revolutionary—nature of the field. The program originated in academic settings in the late 1960s and early 1970s in a very radical manner. In 1968, the Third World Liberation Front (TWLF) at San Francisco State staged a very large, vocal, and militant strike; similar demands followed at the University of California at Berkeley. At both institutions, coalitions of students, lecturers, and activists ran Asian American studies with autonomy, overseeing all aspects of the program. from curriculum to faculty hiring, independently of broader university institutions. These populist origins of the Asian American studies movement...