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...disillusioning details of the media and movie worlds and has great fun imagining magazines called We, You, Speak and Gas. Yet what makes her book stronger than a generic Hollywood satire is that even as it sees through the tawdriness of the system, it cannot help acknowledging the dreamy pull of its products. Clementine's boss remarks that in Hollywood people seem "so disconnected from everything--from the past, the news, the world, even the weather." Clementine sees that somehow, nevertheless, they still connect with...
...huge dig by sophomore outside hitter Ryland Degnan and subsequent kill by sophomore outside hitter Will Reppun gave the Crimson a 34-32 win in game four. Harvard started out slowly, but the team clawed its way back into the game, closing an 18-13 deficit to pull even at 25. The Crimson had served for the victory at 29-28, but the Knights’ Neal Octave converted a kill down the line to keep Queens in the game...
...liked the results of those penalties even less—two third-period goals that allowed Vermont to pull within one with over 10 minutes remaining...
...success this weekend, the Catamounts managed to test Grumet-Morris in both games, especially in the third period of game one. When Harvard drew five straight penalties in fewer than seven minutes, he faced four over-lapping power plays. Two of those power plays resulted in goals, which helped pull Vermont back into the game...
...assuming or ignoring property rights and laws, economists consistently fail to pull the growth rabbit out of the hat of formal analysis. With an over-investment in impressive sounding equations yielding only marginal returns, economic theories are running a significant deficit of common sense...