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Such enthusiasm surrounds the Harvard football program for only one weekend a year. That one event more than any other highlights the year in Harvard sports. They call it a one-game season, the one time every 12 months that a single athletic contest dominates University life. In late November...
So does Author Richard Grenier, a sometime scriptwriter and now film critic for Commentary. Grenier's best scenes vividly mix farce and mayhem, but they remain set pieces. He is less concerned with tightening the strands of his narrative than with slashing away at the twin hypocrisies of Celluloid...
Back home, Hawke's foreign travels, and his encounter with President Reagan, met with mixed reviews. Sniffed the conservative Australian Financial Review: "Many Australians will dismiss Mr. Hawke's jawboning with Mr. Reagan as a mere B-grade movie publicity stunt." Predictably, Labor Party left-wingers were furious...
The chance of extraterrestrial discovery is, to be sure, infinitesimally small. As it hurtles through the interstellar void, Pioneer will not approach another star for 10,000 earth years. Even then, it will hardly be a close encounter: there will be a gulf of 3.8 light-years (some 23 trillion...
It is sheer chance, a phenomenon not much discussed inside the Heritage Club, that brings the two young men together. A couple of policemen miraculously restore Billy Ray Valentine to health simply by picking him up and shaking him. Running away, he bumps into Winthorpe, whose breeding makes him assume...