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...night when Lavietes Pavilion was packed to the brim, Harvard rewarded its fan base with a monumental 62-51 upset win over Michigan...
...that sealed the victory, the place nearly erupted, as fans ran onto the court and celebrated with the players. “It’s amazing,” Harris said. “We were joking in the locker room that this win will increase our fan base threefold.”While Lavietes is still no lion’s den for opponents, the Crimson improved to 3-0 on its home floor this season. A big win over Mercer in the home opener was followed by a five-point victory over New Hampshire on Tuesday night.But...
...Duran Duran, one listen to “Red Carpet Massacre” is enough for any fan to realize that the band has changed—for the worse. Generally speaking, musicians who make successful comebacks tend to change their artistic identity significantly, maintaining their original fan base by keeping traces of their older sound intact while also appealing to a new audience through innovation. Duran Duran were never particularly artistic, churning out dance-singles one after the other until, for whatever reason, the music they made ceased to interest people. And then it was over. It?...
Despite his growing fan base, in Smith's first five years in Los Angeles, he couldn't get a meeting with a director or studio. "Nobody cared," says Lassiter. "'You're a rapper. You got lucky, and you got this television show, but that's all you can do.'" At this point, many would-be movie stars would have been weighing Plan B. Not Smith. "I don't want to get too metaphysical, but by even contemplating a Plan B, you almost create the necessity for a Plan B," he says...
...well as the growing anti-reform protest movement by university students, a cohort that used to be a reliable vanguard of Latin American leftism - Chvez is expected to win on Sunday. That's largely because the fiery anti-U.S. leader knows how to get out his base. His administration has politically and economically enfranchized the majority poor for perhaps the first time in Venezuela's history and he has been very skillful at whipping up that mass of his support by portraying contests like this as martial resistance to the threat of yanqui imperialism. "This is a battle...