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Denniston led the Crimson attack with a .407 hitting percentage for the match and racking up 14 kills on 27 attempts. With the freshmen seeing significant playing time throughout the match, rookie middle hitter Lauren Gallagher added eight kills, and sophomore outside hitter Nicole Meunier tacked on nine digs...
With many players rotating in and out during the match, Jellin had the difficult task of remaining the stabilizing influence on the court and orchestrating the offense...
With both teams playing their first match of the tournament with aggressiveness and alacrity, the fast-paced, high-energy match lasted over two hours. The Friars won the first two games, 12-15 and 13-15, but Harvard fought back in the third game with strong blocking and serving...
...does it, generally, with obsequious reverence and block-that-metaphor prose (Joan Crawford was "her own nebula--a woman who hauled herself up by her bootstraps and created her glittering star self from scratch"). That soft touch has made her the Barbara Walters of gossip, with access to match. "[W]ouldn't you rather I dealt with it Liz Smith-style?" she asks subjects. After a few hundred pages, it becomes a little much--and that's before Smith shares her thoughts on religion. Still, if you like worshipful, '40s-style celebrity journalism and old-Hollywood glamour--Smith's career...
...numbers sound gigantic, awesome, mind boggling. Match them up against the stunning dimensions of the U.S. economy, though, and the figures the Al Gore and George W. Bush campaigns brandish on the stump suddenly shrink to a kind of marginal gloss. That was one of the first and most often made observations by TIME's Board of Economists when asked to weigh the presidential candidates' competing programs in the national balance. David Wyss, the nonpartisan chief economist of Standard & Poor, prices Bush's and Gore's tax and spending plans at around $1.5 trillion over the next 10 years. That...