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With his left arm, Ted Kennedy leaned on a metal cane; with his right, he was braced by his old pal Orrin Hatch. The two Senators, the President and First Lady, and former President Bill Clinton had come to the SEED School in Southeast Washington, a working-class neighborhood that rarely gets a glimpse of a President, let alone two. The occasion: the signing of landmark national-service legislation that had been sponsored by the Republican Hatch, from Utah, and the ailing Democratic lion from Massachusetts...
Even in his own country, Ayckbourn has never gotten the critical respect accorded contemporaries such as Tom Stoppard and David Hare. They write "important" plays about political issues or nuclear physics or Russian intellectuals. Ayckbourn's realm is more familiar: the domestic and romantic trials of modern middle-class Brits. Yet no one has probed more acutely, or with a finer balance of laughter and pain, the sad human comedy behind these tidy surfaces - the inability of people to connect, to see the casual cruelty they inflict on others, to come to terms with their failed illusions, to be happy...
...They’re a terrific class,” said Fish, referring to his senior singles stalwarts. “With Chris having a shoulder problem and Sasha having had a fracture in his foot, they still played the whole Ivy season and played great...
Every year Crimson baseball plays a home/road weekend slate with the Big Green, spending one day in Hanover and the other in Cambridge. Dartmouth fans are world-class hecklers, known for insightful drunken banter and tireless roadtripping. But as much as Flyby respects these traits in a fan, each year it appears that a group of unruly Big Green supporters take the baseball rivalry to an even higher level. To hear about their latest antics (depicted in the photo to the right), read on after the jump...
...even that would have posed complications. Professors said that it would be costly to teach individual seminars to a capped number of students in a full-fledged great books program—especially since Harvard has slowed down hiring, and any Gen Ed class would take professors’ time away from teaching department classes...