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In its first-ever game against an Atlantic Coast Conference school, Harvard was not looking for a national championship contender--Duke finished 8-11-1 last year. The Crimson wanted a close, hard-fought game from an equal opponent, not to be schooled.
If anyone can challenge Penn's two-year dominance of the Ivy League, it's Brown. No longer an Ivy League also-ran, coach Mark Whipple has needed just one season to turn the Bears into a legitimate contender.
Now California Democrat Barbara Boxer has renewed her crusade to force those hearings. "The apparent abuse of public trust that seems to have taken place against many women is outrageous enough," she said last week. "The fact that it may include a child who was 15 when she started interning...
Rep. Robert Torricelli, a feisty, partisan Democrat, is the strongest Democratic contender likely to run for Bradley's seat. Among the elephants, it's Rep. Dick Zimmer, a three-term fiscal conservative/pro-choicer.
Ask Elaine Pagels. Her much honored 1979 work, The Gnostic Gospels, was one of the rare volumes of religious scholarship to find a general readership. In her new book, The Origin of Satan (Random House; $23), Pagels, a professor of religion at Princeton University, examines how the earliest Christians made...