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...better or for worse, an artist gives the people exactly what they want. Philip Pullman's brief, exquisite novel ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE NORTH (Knopf; 104 pages) is fan service at its best. North is set in the same quasi-Victorian alternative universe as Pullman's Golden Compass, where every human is accompanied by a talking-animal soul mate called a daemon. It's a prequel, the story of how a young and not-yet-grizzled Lee Scoresby, gunslinging aeronaut extraordinaire, and his rabbit daemon, Hester, first met up with armored polar bear Iorek Byrnison. Nobody writes dialogue...
...into the Tournament. Ironically, the absence of Clarkson from the ECAC Final Four may have hurt Harvard more than it helped. Though the Crimson must have been happy to avoid facing a team that ended its season last year and swept the season series 2-0 this year, the Golden Knights squeezed the NCAA bubble by claiming an at-large berth after tumbling from the ECAC playoffs. On March 22, however, there was one man responsible for Harvard’s fate: Princeton goaltender Zane Kalemba. The netminder finished with 34 saves and was named the tournament?...
...DIEGO 7, HARVARD 2The first game was the closest contest in the series with the Toreros. That, however, isn’t saying much since the Crimson never had a real shot at taking the ballgame. San Diego starter Brain Matusz—who is a candidate for the Golden Spikes Award given to the top player in the nation—threw eight innings and allowed just three hits and one run while striking out 16.“We need to cut down on our strikeouts,” Vance said. “Putting the ball...
Journalists don't help. This is a golden age of economic journalism, with wonderful business writers churning out great stuff every day. But they're not the ones covering the candidates. The endless political campaign has produced a permanent class of political journalists (or perhaps it's the other way around). Many are just as wise as the business journalists, but they devote their wisdom to the minutiae of campaign strategy and are mystified to the point of terror about economics...
...Andrews' golden ticket out of the squalor was her freakish singing voice: pure, light and agile, with a tremendous range and perfect pitch. By 9 she was out on tour with her mother and stepfather. It was the dying days of vaudeville, and she belted out her high Fs on sticky, splintered stages to halls full of cigarette smoke, but by 13 she'd been asked to perform for the Queen, and by 17 the family mortgage was in her name. By 19 she was on Broadway in The Boy Friend...