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This year is no different. Under the leadership of tri-captains Mary Greenhill, Brooke Bailey and Carrie Cunningham, the 1991-92 Crimson top nine is determined to prove that no one can underestimate it and get away with it. Just one game against the aggressive Greenhill, with her canon serve, or the tenacious stunner, sophomore Jordanna Fraiberg, who has filled the number-one spot since she arrived at Harvard, is enough to get the point across--these folks don't take too kindly when told they can't do something...
...sharply hit B.U. corner shot at 17:24 turned into a game of pinball for the players in Harvard's circle. Lisa Barone managed to get her stick on the ball and redirected it high toward the net. B.U. Tri-Captain Leslie Ambinder deftly deflected it into the net, tying the score...
This has meant that urban areas, which tend to follow natural forms and not surveyors' lines, pay no heed to political divisions (except when those lines correspond to major policy divisions like tax rates or school districts). The "Tri-State," "Tri-County," or Greater Whatever Area are where we live; the Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area, a balkanized netherworld of politics. Even though the area is an organic whole, even though suburbs and cities need each other, no one can do anything in more than one principality at a time...
Drivers on the Tri-State Tollway just southwest of Chicago were startled last week by a billboard plugging the Afro Country Club, "where only the ball is white." They were even more startled the next day, after overnight vandals wrote NIGER (sic) and K.K.K. and daubed a swastika on the sign. Similar racist graffiti were sprayed on road signs in the town of Justice, the racially mixed bedroom community of 11,500 where the billboard was located...
...Hollywood, swollen egos can lead to skyrocketing costs. Movie-industry insiders say megastar Bruce Willis was unhappy with the look of his receding hairline and bald spot in the prints of Hudson Hawk, the $45 million action film scheduled to open next week. So Tri-Star Pictures hired a special-effects firm to retouch every offending frame...