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...there’s one thing that has become apparent this season, it’s that for Rachel Brown, there will be no sophomore slump...
Sokolov, like many of the top critics from his generation, suffers from "back in the day"-itis. "Nobody [is] ever going to be as influential as the Times critics of the '60s and '70s," he says. (New York's Gael Greene can be counted upon to say the same thing whenever asked.) But the kind of influence the Times had in the '70s was hardly worth having. A few thousand urban mandarins depended on its reviews, and proceeded to agree or disagree. Restaurants didn't matter in the culture the way they do now. Ordinary Americans west of the Hudson...
...solve these problems? I think the first thing is to become much more indignant about these cultural values and sexist imagery. Men should be indignant about it too - and many men are. Women have a lot of work to do yet around pay equity, day care, paid maternity leave, sexual harassment, violence against women. [There's] a whole host of issues that are still the unfinished business of our movement...
...think we were prepared for St. John’s to be playing as well as they did,” Omodele-Lucien said. “Last time we played them, it was a little easier. So, we started on our heels, which is always the wrong thing to do. They caught a lot of us off guard...
...have to tell yourself that you can’t worry about the result,” Omodele-Lucien explained. “If you worry about the result you won’t perform well. The most important thing in a tight situation like that is to play your game well and focus on each shot rather than the score...