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DIED. EARL SHAFFER, 83, reclusive adventurer who in 1948 became the first person to hike the length of the Appalachian Trail in one trip; of liver cancer; in Lebanon, Pa. He made the then 2,058-mile voyage from Georgia to Maine in 124 days...
...League of Their Own. When she took the lead the films flopped - 1986's Shanghai Surprise cost $17 million and grossed less than $2.5 million. (1996's Evita, which bagged her a Golden Globe, did much better, but that one is sung through, making it effectively a feature-length music video.) Madonna has earned the right to try whatever she likes. But if she fails, this biggest of stars falls far and hard, in front of millions. Unfortunately, Australian playwright Williamson has handed her a dud of a play (not saved by Laurence Boswell's clever production, which frames...
...speakers were selected through a competitive audition process, according to Commencement Director Grace C. Scheibner. Any Harvard degree candidate is eligible to deliver a commencement oration, which must be less than five minutes in length...
...were up about half alength on Wisconsin at the 1000-meter mark, and a length up on Cornell,” sophomore Will Riffelmacher said. “We started to bring the rate up with...
...likewise refrain from ranting on, at tedious length, about what’s horribly wrong with Harvard. So there will be no final, impassioned attacks on the Core Curriculum (‘Worst . . idea . . .ever’), or on the wickedness of Senior Gift (it’s too late, anyway), or on the University’s blinkered pursuit of cosmetic (i.e. racial) pluralism at the expense of any socio-economic and intellectual diversity—both of which ought to be slightly more important than whether we decide to fund a Committee on Chicano Studies, don?...