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...against Lehigh and held off late charges from the Mountain Hawks to win, 83-75, on Saturday at Lavietes Pavilion. Senior center Brian Cusworth led the Crimson (2-3) with 20 points while sophomore guard Drew Housman had a season-high 18. Last week’s Patriot League Player of the Week, senior guard Jose Olivero, paced Lehigh (2-5) with 15 points but was only 5-of-17 from the floor. Trailing 41-22 at halftime, the Mountain Hawks scored on eight of their first nine possessions to start the second half. They cut the Harvard lead...
...into retirement or hiding. Altman moved to the side streets, to the movie equivalent of off-Broadway, to fashion his next career: as the formidable director of stage plays on film and videotape (10 of them, from 1982 to 1988). In 1992 he stormed back from exile with The Player, writer Michael Tolkin's vivid, genial satire of the movie industry's knack for corrupting American optimism and ingenuity - by which time a system of indie distributors was in place to bankroll Altman's more ambitious projects and return him to the mainstream of American movies' minor stream...
...prima donna, or a spear carrier, in Altman's daring democracy. Not many directors would think to open a film with an elegant eight-minute tracking shot that brings dozens of characters together and introduces a whodunit teaser. Altman did it, and so much more, with The Player. He continued his innovations with film form in Short Cuts and Ready to Wear and the 2001 Gosford Park. By then, as happens to most pioneering artists, experiment had calcified into the format of "the Altman movie." But what the hell. He created it; he was entitled to develop...
NHGRI—a leading player in the international effort to sequence the entire human genome, which was completed in 2003—has now shifted its focus towards “understanding the structure and function of the human genome and its role in human disease,” according to its mission statement...
...voter, I am a poker player and I am mad,” opens a letter to Congress from Poker Players Alliance, a non-profit organization...