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...Cosmos (HarperCollins; $25), Dennis Overbye has discovered a fiendishly clever way of tricking readers into understanding cosmology, the study of the entire universe. Instead of focusing on the nuts and bolts -- exotic particles, black-body radiation and the like -- Overbye draws intimate portraits of such people as Allan Sandage, once a "lean, Jimmy Stewartish" youngster and now the grand old man of cosmology; David Schramm, a Porsche-driving physicist and ex-wrestler; and Yakov Zeldovich, a sort of "Zorba the Cosmologist," who dazzled colleagues with his intuitive genius and women with his charm. By describing the quirky personalities and brilliant...
...Allan Gurganus...
...Allan Gurganus' popular 1989 Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All is an exuberant comic novel narrated by a Southern nonagenarian. Dixie whistles through the stories Gurganus has collected for White People, although the theme of the Lost Cause is rearranged for misplaced lives. The attitudes and manners of Gurganus' characters are small-town first and Confederate second -- even third. Similarly, the author's narrators are perceptive misfits who just happen to be gay. "I've got an extra tenderness. It's not legal," is the laconic observation of one homosexual who is attracted to a pornography fan. In the story...
...Tretowicz, Hugo Belanger); 3, H, Ted Drury 14 (Matt Mallgrave, Brian Farrell) 18:54. Penalties--H, Mallgrave (slashing) 5:54; C, Casselman (slashing) 5:54; H, Drury (elbowing) 8:41; C, Tretowicz (holding) 9:41; C, Sylvian LaPointe (hit from behind) 13:30; H, Barringer (elbowing) 16:13; H, Allan Roy (interference) 17:00; C, Dave Trombley (high-sticking...
...Allan S. Galper '93, a Crimson writer, is co-chair of the Harvard Hillel Oppressed Jewry Committee...