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...fifth seed in the 1989-90 season to play between first and third seed this season. Sophomore Neal Tew, Clark's roommate, has also been a climber this season after a back injury last year. He is now regularly playing between seven and ninth seed--up from 10th to 13th seeds last year...
With its lineup split between the Jumbos, the nation's 13th-ranked team, and the Engineers, the Crimson men's squash team (8-0 overall, 4-0 Ivy) still managed to crush both its local foes, 9-0. In fact, Harvard did not lose a single game all afternoon, notching a shutout tally...
Attentive John le Carre fans may recognize the narrator of the author's 13th novel. He is Ned (no last name given), the British intelligence official who ran the operation so vividly bungled in the best-selling The Russia House (1989). That fiasco was not Ned's fault, to be sure, but he has been punished by his Service superiors anyhow, unplugged from the power loop and farmed out to teach spycraft to young recruits. On an inspired whim, Ned manages to lure his old mentor, George Smiley, out of retirement to spend an evening talking with these students...
Landings had been banned at Metro because of the fog, but takeoffs were allowed to continue because visibility on the runways was declared to be above the required quarter-mile minimum. Captain William Lovelace, making only his 13th flight after a five-year absence (he had left to get treatment for a kidney-stone ailment and later opened a gift shop), apparently became disoriented in the murk shortly after pulling his DC-9 away from the gate. According to investigators, he made a left turn onto a wrong taxiway, then failed to turn right onto a second taxiway that would...
...Sonoma's Simi Winery, a number of women have taken up the vinting craft, and are increasingly making their talents known. Kristin Belair, 31, a graduate of the University of California at Davis, is a newcomer to reckon with: the Wine Spectator rated her 1986 Johnson Turnbull Cabernet Sauvignon 13th on its recent list of 100 "Hottest Wines." "Winemaking is a nice mix of art and science," she says. "I really like blending and all the little decisions along the way. An amount as small as 2% or 3% of blended wine will make a difference in the taste...