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...word “nigger” (as they did) to denote toughness, heart and passion, they agreed. But when news of Dambrot’s usage got out, the college administration reproached and then fired him. Kennedy thinks that Dumbrot’s usage was ill-advised, but thinks his being fired was too harsh a sentence. Herein lies the contradiction. If racist intent was not apparent in Dambrot’s use, what else constituted its inappropriateness? Is ignorance or the simplification of the word’s far-reaching implications alone worthy of criticism...
...Princeton team that must regroup after Tuesday’s effort. Princeton unraveled against Penn, especially in the second half when it departed from its gameplan and attempted only three shots from inside the arc. The Tigers are already a loss behing Yale in the conference standings and can ill-afford to extend their two-game losing streak...
Catlin, who entered the game ill, put on a spectacular performance against BC (7-16-3), building on her two-goal evening against Northeastern a week earlier. Against the Huskies, Catlin’s weapon of choice had been the wrist shot. Last night, it was the deke...
DIED. ASTRID LINDGREN, 94, self-effacing, globally revered children's author; in Stockholm. The wildly imaginative and sometimes controversial Swede wrote more than 70 books, but was best known for Pippi Longstocking, a willful, sometimes ill-mannered gamine with bright red pigtails whose self-confidence shocked traditionalists. Lindgren said that Pippi, whose name was coined by her daughter, struck a chord in part because she "has power...but never misuses...
...Princess' death came as something of a shock - in fact, it was her 101-year-old mother, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, whose ill health had been the focus of public concern for months. Yet Margaret too had been unwell. When last seen in public, just before Christmas, she was confined to a wheelchair, her face disfiguringly puffy - apparently from medication - and shrouded by enormous dark glasses. With both her left side and her eyesight seriously affected by strokes, Margaret was a frail, spectral figure - in poignant contrast to the vibrant young woman who once rewrote the book on proper...