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...faces on three point attempts, and the big men failed to body up on the Tiger’s inside giants.With just over two minutes to play, Harvard had cut the Princeton lead down to three, at 63-60. But on the ensuing possession, Princeton sophomore guard Dan Mavraides sunk a wide-open three after Harvard failed to switch on to him. Again, Harvard rebounded on a clutch three from Housman on the next possession, but needing a stop just a minute later, it happened again. With the Crimson down just 68-65, Mavraides nailed another wide-open trifecta after...
...time of 2:02.87, while junior Tommy Gray finished first in the 500-yard freestyle, touching the wall in 4:43.41. Although Harvard did not place first in any of the day’s remaining events, it did register the fastest time in the 100-yard butterfly. Senior Dan Jones, who swam in the non-scoring second heat of the event, finished with a time of 50.26, passing Brown’s first-place winner, Dan Ricketts, who won the first heat in 50.30. “I was pleased with the guys’ energy and their enthusiasm...
Your crotchety, sentimental liberal grandpa - Patrick Leahy, say, or Dan Rather - picked the Oscar nominations again this year. The voting members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences don't care that you liked The Dark Knight, which is the second biggest dollar-earner in movie history, and which kids and critics alike appreciated less as a live-action comic book than a triangular battle of stern Good, giggling Evil and two faces in between. Except for a Heath Ledger memorial citation (Supporting Actor), the film was shut out of all major award categories, taking seven other doorstop prizes...
...proposed closure of the surfing museum that sounded the loudest alarms. It immediately unleashed a tidal wave of response from surfers worldwide and sparked an emotional campaign to keep the museum afloat. "It came out of the blue. We had no idea," says Dan Young, 55, of the Santa Cruz Surfing Club Preservation Society, which is spearheading a campaign to save the institution. "My phones started ringing. E-mails started flying. We basically said, 'Hell, no! This ain't gonna happen!" (See 10 things to do in San Francisco...
...There is plenty of evidence that Holder can turn a blind eye to politics. As U.S. Attorney in 1996, Holder prosecuted and sent to prison Representative Dan Rostenkowski, one of the most powerful Democrats in Congress. Two years later, as Deputy Attorney General, he gave independent counsel Kenneth Starr the legal authority to probe into Monica Lewinsky's relationship with President Clinton...