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Ancient Rome bestowed laws, roads, imperial machismo, crucifixions, la dolce vita and the drama of decline and fall, the longest-running show in Western history. The city continues to give the impression of crumbling into its own ruins, its reputation as decadence central cheered on by Fellini and Gore Vidal. But like a Verdi heroine dying with a knife in her breast, Rome continues to sing impressively...
Crew at Harvard wallows in contradictions. The shortest season (just five races); the longest season (practice every day, all year). The most neglected (just a handful of spectators attend); the highest quality (the heavies are ranked second in the nation...
...will end one of the longest and most distinguished one-man epochs in U.S. orchestral history. At 80, Ormandy will have conducted his last regular-season concert as music director of the ensemble he has led so successfully for 44 years. "The time has come," he says...
...last Thursday, President Carter looked firmly into the television cameras and announced that the economy "has slowed down and has probably entered a period of recession." After a staggering litany of bad economic news over the past month, there is now little doubt that the nation has ended the longest peacetime expansion in its history...
Mark Bingham hit the longest shot of the day--a two-run round-tripper to deep centerfield--but Captain Charlie Santos-Buch knocked home what proved to be the gamewinner with a three-run double in the eighth...