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...Harvard won’t only need to adjust to the unfamiliar surface. The team will see a new starting quarterback behind center, as senior Chris Pizzotti makes his 2007 debut as a starter. He will be filling in for senior Liam O’Hagan, who is out indefinitely after dislocating his shoulder in last weekend’s 20-13 loss at Lehigh...
...quantities, and the weather put on quite a show: there was sunshine, dramatic cloudbursts and even a rainbow over the convention center as Prime Minister Gordon Brown made his speech. Yet something was missing: the chance to blow off steam by trading insults or even blows with colleagues. An unfamiliar spirit of universal amity took the edge off debates that in earlier years might have degenerated into cathartic screaming matches. Sheltering from a sudden downpour in the lee of a seafront pub, one Labour old-timer joked to another: "Now that's what I call rain - good and honest, just...
When Deborah Bial answered her phone in a rental car in Chicago, the unfamiliar voice on the other end asked the founder of a nonprofit for urban high school graduates if she were alone and sitting down. He then told her that she would be receiving a half-million dollar grant through the MacArthur Fellows Program...
...debilitated by scattered characterization. The movie opens at the chaste, jejune scene of an Australian orphanage home to four self-named December Boys (for their birthdays) linked by the same distant desire of adoption by doting parents. When they are taken on holiday to a bucolic cove beside an unfamiliar seaside, they find themselves empowered—and sometimes divided—by the unbridled freedom. The pace is slow and episodic. The audience sees the predictable rifts arise between the boys—Maps (Daniel Radcliffe), Misty (Lee Cormie), Sparks (Christian Byers), and Spit (James Fraser...
...Historically, Germany, Japan, and France would be my toughest competition. It’s more unfamiliar than the U.S. setting, because, one, I’ve never been on the world stage before and there in each country there’s a different style. Each person will be the best DJ in their country, so they could be bringing crazy stuff you’ve never seen before, so you’ve got to be ready for everything. In the U.S., you can plan more strategically. If I face this guy that’s kind of weaker...