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...beast of a man who trudged across the river during his freshman year to bench and squat as much as was humanly possible. Though the outgoing ‘Italian Stallion’ grin has never left his face, Martignetti’s beastly 200-plus pound frame has been reduced to a timid 165 pounds...
Harvard took a two-goal advantage with time winding down in the second frame. Junior defenseman Jennifer Skinner succeeded in thwarting a Colgate 3-on-2 rush, clearing the puck from the area to Raimondi. From there, Raimondi sprinted down the left side, outskated the Raiders defense down half the length of the ice, and lasered a goal into the top right corner...
These were the lone two slip-ups for Wheeler who, starting for unspecified reasons in place of Colgate regular Rebecca Lahar, minded the net admirably on the evening. She finished with 31 saves, and used her 5’10 frame to stuff various attacks from the vaunted Crimson forwards...
...exclamation points and repetitions--repetitions!--for emphasis, but Wolfe himself speaks softly, slowly and a little hoarsely, with the ruins of a long-ago Virginia accent. He has always been dapper, but now he is a dapper old man. His appearance is not so much wolfish as avian: his frame is slight, his nose hooked and beaky, his mischievous smile a little snaggle-toothed. His hair is midlength and floppy, à la David Spade. He still wears his trademark white suit, accessorized with some kind of high-gloss old-timey shoes, but it hangs a little loose on him. When...
...movies and TV. "When Perry Mason first aired, lawyers were not allowed to approach witnesses to question them," says Christopher Stone, director of the Vera Institute of Justice, a nonprofit that promotes innovation in the justice system. "But you couldn't fit Mason and the witness in the same frame, so the directors had Mason walk over and lean on the witness rail. Then juries expected lawyers to do that, and if they didn't, jurors thought something was wrong." Moreover, Stone says, Dragnet helped save the Miranda ruling, which was unpopular with law enforcement and some politicians, by showing...