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Many will choose to remember the doughty King mainly as a survivor. He succeeded to the Hashemite throne in 1952, at 16, and when he came home last week, at 63, he was the Middle East's longest-serving leader, a ruler of personal courage and political caution who navigated his country through the intrigues of the cold war to the consummation of peace with Israel...
...friends assembled here, Podhoretz knew Ginsberg the longest, for 50 years, from the time they were students together at Columbia University just after the war. Though Ginsberg's aura toward the end of his life (he died in 1997) suggested Buddhist serenity, Podhoretz remembers him as "arrogant and brash and full of an in-your-face bravado," even a kind of fury. Ginsberg seemed to have a fixation on Podhoretz--possibly because he suspected that Podhoretz had his number as a personality-poet camouflaging mediocrity with an outrageous epater-le-bourgeois program (insanity is sanity; drugs are sacramental; homosexuality...
...ECAC) put the only blemish in No. 1 Harvard's otherwise spectacular season by defeating the Crimson (20-1-0, 16-1-1), 4-2, in Providence Nov. 15. Harvard has reeled off 17 consecutive victories since that game, good for the nation's longest winning streak, but the Bears are still the only ECAC team that has not lost to the Crimson this year...
Jagr's three-point night--he also assisted on Kip Miller's tying goal in the third period--gave him 21 of his league-high 80 points during Pittsburgh's longest winning streak since an eight-game run in late...
...first point of the season each for Kruse and Cunneyworth and the 37-year-old Cunneyworth's first goal as a Sabre since he scored against Boston in a 3-1 win over the Bruins on Nov. 15, 1981. It was the longest span in league history between goals scored by a player for one team...