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...break night in Gotham. The plot's twin spurs are that Norah has to keep tabs on her alkie friend Caroline (Ari Graynor) - her nickname is Winehouse - and that a favorite mystery band, Where's Fluffy, may be playing a concert tonight and the teens will stay in town until they locate the venue...
...their games with spectacular defensive shows, and merely formidable offensive outings. This weekend both teams are looking to improve and Saturday’s game could very well decide whether or not the Crimson repeat as Ivy Champions or whether there is a new dog, or perhaps bear, in town. In the official Ivy League pre-season poll, the Bears were chosen to finish third in the Ivies for the second year in a row, after the Crimson and Yale, tied for first in the same poll. But, Brown has the advantage of hosting both Harvard and the Bulldogs...
...Courage to Cut? McCain strode to the microphones a short time later in Freeland, Mich., a little town near the spot where the thumb of the Michigan mitten meets the palm. The state's economy is the weakest in the country, and McCain was there to visit one of the few bright spots, a Dow Corning plant devoted to solar-power technology...
...Dressed in tan trousers, a blue blazer and a striped tie - the unofficial uniform of the small-town Chamber of Commerce - McCain cut quite a different figure from his opponent. He radiated toughness with an overlay of irritation. He tried to warn us two years ago that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were screwed up, he began, but did America listen? Now look at the trouble...
...When an Israeli promoter announced in 1965 that the Fab Four were coming to town, ecstatic local teenagers took it as an affirmation that they were just as cool as the kids in London and New York who were letting their hair grow. But the concert never happened. Legend has it that a rival promoter, who had been trying to bring clean-cut British pop star Cliff Richard to Israel at the same time, warned the authorities that the mop-haired Beatles would exert a dangerous influence on Israeli youth. Mindful of preserving the moral purity of the next generation...