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Princeton only win in league play was a 5-3 triumph over Cornell. Sophomore midfielder Kevin Griffin had two goals and an assist. Matt Behncke, sixth-leading scorer in the Ivies, and sophomore forward Matt Striebel each added another goal. The Tigers got out to a two-goal lead in the first 20 minutes, and traded goals with Cornell for the rest of the game. The five goals in the game matched Princeton's offensive output for the rest of the season in its entirety...
Another freshman, Andrea Magyera, was part of the other big win for the Crimson. In A-Flight doubles, she and junior Vedica Jain held on for a stunning 9-8 (7-3) triumph over Brown's Saranga Sangakkara and Julia Martynova. Sangakkarra is ranked 57th in the nation, and she was the number three seed in the A Flight for this tournament. Jain and Magyera fell behind 7-4 then took four games for an 8-7 lead. They dropped the next game and then pulled out the win in the tiebreaker...
...emotional epic. The main narrative unfolds in a flashback. Reporter Ellen Gulden is being questioned by a district attorney about assisting in her cancer-stricken mother's death. Using characters grounded in the simplicities of life, One True Thing gives us something almost unparalleled in recent cinematic memory--the triumph of the ordinary. Soman Chainani...
That ovation, coupled with Nomar's dignified heroics in Game Four this season, showed me that the pain of defeat is only temporary, but grace is timeless, and through it humanity can triumph over history...
...Times Books; 459 pages; $27.50), reminds us that there is a difference between the hair-splitting legalisms that dominate the current headlines and the rule of law that changes history. Marshall never represented a bank. His clients were African Americans deprived of their fundamental rights as citizens. His great triumph, achieved in 1954, was the Supreme Court's ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, which struck down segregated schools...