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...there were two people in the room,” Rankin says. “If it’s just [their] word against the other person’s word...[for the student], it can feel like a roll of the dice...
...there’s really no question that Harvard has the talent to make the Ivy League tournament, and with a doubleheader against Yale coming up tomorrow, the team has another opportunity to take control on the field and roll into its weekend games against Dartmouth (19-13, 9-5) with momentum. It just has to make strong performances a certainty rather than a question mark. And should the Crimson succeed in making the tournament, its raw talent alone over the course of the season indicates that Harvard can make...
...professional troublemaker by nature and a haberdasher, boutique owner and rock-'n'-roll manager by trade, Malcolm lived life more as a "glorious accident" (a term he used to describe Sid Vicious) than as a strategic campaign. While McLaren was portrayed in the film Sid and Nancy as a cunning calculator who cons the media into giving the Sex Pistols publicity, Malcolm was more bewildered by the monster he created and more naive than he was ever credited for--except when it came to realizing how much money there was to be made. Pistols lead singer Johnny Rotten...
...Pistols were his master's thesis in rock 'n' roll, then the New York Dolls, one of New York City's first punk bands, were McLaren's boot camp. He began as an unofficial manager of the Dolls in 1975, when the band was in its death throes, dressing them in bizarrely unfashionable red patent leather in a crapshoot to revive the Dolls' career. On Malcolm McLaren's tombstone should be the epitaph his grandmother left to him: "To be bad is good ... to be good is simply boring...
...Navy did a pretty good job and didn’t roll over or give up an inch,” Disanto said. “And up until 200 [meters] to go...it was a real dog fight...