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While the defeat may not prove fatal to the Crimson's tournament hopes, it certainly will cause a week of frustration and restlessness for the players, who harbor no affection for Brown's physical style of play...
...awesome to be sure, but devoid of greater meaning. Earlier generations were more impressionable. As proof that the mountains were possessed by the devil, the learned physicist and mathematician Johann Jacob Scheuchzer in 1702 compiled an encyclopedic list of dragon sightings in the Alps. (Mons Pilatus was said to harbor a particularly hideous monster, with a head "that terminated in the serrated jaw of a serpent...
...addresses. However, I feel that these books can be important tools in my class. At age 13 or 14,many of my students are beginning their first study of the Second World War. These books can lead to discussions about points of view, especially when youngsters have studied Pearl Harbor and the Bataan death march. Like Krauthammer, I do not want childhood to end too quickly, but at least these two books have helped me teach about some disturbing moments in history. Keep them out of the hands of seven-year-old, but don't disregard them entirely...
...months before Pearl Harbor, and Henry R. Luce, the 43-year-old founder and editor of TIME, wanted to pay a visit to his hometown of Tengchow, China. He also wanted to check out personally the country's leader, Chiang Kai-shek, a man he had largely created, at least as far as most Americans were concerned. Traveling with his wife, the formidable Clare Boothe Luce, "Harry," as he was called, decided to bring home a souvenir, a talented bundle of energy named Theodore H. White. They are the Harry & Teddy (Random House; 340 pages; $24) of this smart little...
Choosing what to write with is a momentous decision for me. It all began with one of those shiny Hello Kitty vinyl school kits, you know, the bright ones with a neat little row of plastic loops inside to harbor a child's collection of those disappearing markers that come inside boxes of Lucky Charms. In those inviting slots she had tucked a fascinating armament of pens and mechanical pencils and ever since then I've been a writing utensil snob. I revel in the satisfaction of taking notes in just the right color ink and with...