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...attention from the defensive backs, senior flanker Sam Taylor slipped out to the left side of the field and waited patiently for the play to unfold. Morris reached the right sideline and as the Dartmouth defense closed in on him, he wheeled and fired a perfect pass to the wide-open Taylor. The stunned Dartmouth secondary could only watch as Taylor streaked in untouched to score Harvard’s first points of the game...
...they looked toward Commencement, they found a prospering economy with a wide-open employment market...
...political drama. The distinctive vernacular of some of our other homegrown genres gives the Brits more trouble. The National Theatre's first revival of a Rodgers and Hammerstein classic, Hytner's dark-hued production of Carousel (seen on Broadway in 1994), was a beautiful piece of work. But the wide-open frontier of Oklahoma!--while rendered just as beautifully onstage in burnished golds and blues--seems like foreign territory. It's not that Nunn's production puts too much emphasis on the story's "dark" side (de rigueur for any British director remaking a sunny American classic). It's that...
...Crimson (4-2, 0-1 Ivy) is looking to this weekend’s contest for its first win in what could be a very wide-open Ivy League race. After this week’s Yale-Princeton upset, each conference game takes on a greater importance...
...past two years built a network of activists that succeeded, for a while, in resisting factory closures with the risky tactic of physically occupying their plants. A man who goes by the pseudonym Wang Ren is one of the leaders. Now in his 50s with ample girth and a wide-open face, he could have stepped out of a 1960s propaganda poster. For three decades he labored at the Power Generation Equipment Plant, a money-losing factory with half-century-old machinery, that in 1996 was ordered to merge with a private company...