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...miserably cold, and the sky was a bleak gray, saturated with rain drops that had been steadily falling all afternoon. The Harvard baseball team had already dropped perhaps its most important game of the season in heart-breaking fashion just minutes earlier, and now stood deadlocked in a tie with Brown for first place in the Red Rolfe Division...
...sheet music for a Brahms intermezzo is open on the Russian-made Rathke grand piano that rests in the salon. Wearing a gray sweat suit and teddy-bear slippers, Maha Shamas is fretting about how people view Palestinian women. First, it is the way foreigners interpret the ululating jubilation of Palestinian mothers whose children have died as "martyrs." To a Westerner, it looks like an unconscionable celebration of the death of a child. "Palestinian women have been dehumanized so much that people are willing to believe this," she says. "It's the ultimate racism. It assumes that Palestinian mothers...
...said, "I play canasta. What else? Nothing much. At my age, you want me to find something exciting?" No, but I wasn't letting her go. Finally, eager to get me off the phone, she confessed that she's going to stop dyeing her hair. "Your father is going gray, and his mother should be a blonde?" she said. This was the stuff. It was like Fort Lauderdale sweeps week...
...Germany, now in the midst of a brawling election campaign. At the moment, one of the central issues in the race for Chancellor is whether incumbent GERHARD SCHRODER comes by his enviable head of auburn hair naturally. After a German news agency suggested that Schroder, 58, covers his gray, he sent his lawyers to court to stop the agency from repeating the claim. He also sent his barber, who vouched for his hair's authenticity. The court will rule in May, but Schroder's opponents are demanding a hair sample for scientific analysis. At least the press attention is evenhanded...
...year in jail, but that's rare. The monks want the law toughened. In the meantime, the only sanction they can truly rely on is shame. It does work for some. While the abbot drones an incantation, two monks strip Charoen of his robes. Given some cheap gray civvies and a bit of his ill-gotten cash and food, he's cast out from the order. As he walks away from the temple, head hanging and dejected, Charoen mumbles, "That's it for this racket...