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Hill leads the team with 15.8 points a game (eighth in the Ivy League) and adds 8.0 assists per game. Earlier this season, Hill became the only player in Harvard history to compile 1,000 career points and 400 career assists...

Author: By Cathy Tran, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Red Raiders Last Tune-Up For M. Hoops Before Ivy Season Begins | 12/11/1998 | See Source »

Yale (2-4-0, 2-6-0) saw its season slip away this weekend when it lost two heartbreaking games by identical 2-1 margins to Princeton. The Elis, tied with the Brown Bears for eighth place, are young and inexperienced...

Author: By David A. Roddenberry, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Princeton Holds Lead; Harvard Brings Up Rear | 12/9/1998 | See Source »

Brown (1-5-2, 1-5-2) is eighth in the league due to fortuitous scheduling and strong goaltending. The Bears have accumulated three of their four points against the hapless Crimson. Junior goaltender Scott Stirling has kept Brown in most games. Six of his starts have been decided by one goal or less...

Author: By David A. Roddenberry, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Princeton Holds Lead; Harvard Brings Up Rear | 12/9/1998 | See Source »

Junior tri-captain Fran Volpe placed eighth in the 184-pound division. He finished with a 3-3 record for the tournament after placing fifth at last year's Las Vegas Invitational...

Author: By Cathy Tran, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Wrestlers Place Ninth at Cliff Keen Tourney | 12/8/1998 | See Source »

That is one of the questions that animates McEwan's eighth novel, Amsterdam (Doubleday; 193 pages; $21), the 1998 winner of Britain's prestigious Booker Prize. The composer in question is Clive Linley. He and his old friend Vernon Halliday, a newspaper editor, meet outside a London crematorium to say goodbye to Molly Lane, a glamorous and sexually generous woman dead in her late 40s of a painfully wasting disease. Each man had been her lover in earlier days, as had many others, including Julian Garmony, the Foreign Secretary, who is also present at the service. Linley and Halliday, unnerved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Moral Low Ground | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

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