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Arrested Development's straight man Jason Bateman gets to show off his inner oddball as a sleazy lawyer in Smokin' Aces...
What's the secret to playing a good straight...
...there, quality points involved, get the win. That is what we did tonight.” Cusworth provided many of those quality points, as he scored 10 in the final seven minutes.Freshman guard Jeremy Lin scored all of his career-high 12 points after halftime, including 10 straight midway through the half to give Harvard a 51-49 lead with 10:06 remaining. The teams traded baskets after that until junior forward Brad Unger, who had ten points and a career-high seven rebounds, put back sophomore point guard Drew Housman’s miss with 5:29 remaining...
...weekend. But it came as a surprise when, with thirteen minutes left in Friday’s Ivy League tilt against the Big Green, freshman guard Jeremy Lin took charge of the Crimson offense. With Dartmouth leading 45-41, the 6’2 combo guard reeled off ten straight points, exhibiting versatility, poise, and increasingly astute judgment on the court during his prolific stretch of play. “I really felt like I was in the flow,” Lin said, “And I felt comfortable for the first time since I got here...
...more interested in the dark horses, the statistical outliers, which lay bare the secret fetishes and perversions of the literati. Douglas Coupland puts Capote's unfinished Answered Prayers at number one, blowing right by Breakfast at Tiffany's and In Cold Blood, too. Jonathan Franzen begins straight up the middle, with The Brothers Karamazov, but turns a sharp corner at #9 with The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead, and another at #10 with Independent People by Halldor Laxness. The quintessentially American Tom Wolfe starts by reeling off four French classics in a row. Norman Mailer revives John...