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...Red’s losing effort against Dartmouth the night before. The two-sport standout in basketball and track and field then returned to Ithaca, N.Y. for the Indoor Heptagonal Championships on Saturday. Maduka won an individual title in the long jump—recording the third-longest jump of the year in women’s college track and field—but the Big Red basketball team seemed lost without her in Cambridge.“There are positives and negatives, but overall it was a negative situation [for Cornell],” Delaney-Smith said...
...political phenomenon of late 20th century America: the rise of conservatism. The son of an oilman, he leveraged his wealth with energy, passion and cheerful relentlessness. He wrote books laying out the conservative worldview; launched a magazine, National Review, to nurture and promote it; and created one of the longest-running shows in public-television history, Firing Line, to broadcast his views to millions...
...this East Village update of La Bohme seem a little dated now, and the umpteenth replacement cast doesn't have the snap, or the voices, of originals like Anthony Rapp and Idina Menzel. Still, when the last performance of Rent plays on June 1, ending the seventh longest run in Broadway history, it will leave a void on the Great White Way, and theater watchers are already asking the question, Where will Broadway find its next Rent...
...answer is that to the men now running the church, Sister Lucia meant a great deal. She was the longest-lived of three children to whom an apparition of the Virgin Mary appeared in 1917 in the Portuguese parish of Fatima. And, as Vatican Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone makes clear in his upcoming book, The Last Secret of Fatima (May, Doubleday) she was the key human figure in a drama that eventually transformed the very nature of John Paul II's image of himself, and of his papacy. Lucia's superstar days may have waned in the memory...
...Academy has made many goofs, but often subsequent adulation compensates for its oversights. After receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award, Charlie Chaplin got one of the longest standing ovations in Oscar history. I don't think he would have exchanged that experience for a competitive Oscar he missed out on during his career. Anurag Chatrath, Edinburgh...