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...addition to a match against Rutgers on Thursday, Harvard hosts Brown, Dartmouth, Manhattan, UNH and Vermont in the Harvard Invitational on November...
...world's leaders assemble in New York City this week to celebrate the U.N.'s formal 50th birthday, the occasion augurs more than traffic gridlock unlike any that Manhattan has ever seen. Outside of the champagne parties at Turtle Bay, site of the U.N. headquarters, the anniversary stands to produce a feast of cynicism about the visions of 1945. From this angle, the organization's ambitions look overblown and its bureaucratic arthritis embarrassing. As fashion statement, the U.N. is growing scandalously demode...
...some series--the late Northern Exposure, for example--end up choking on their own quirky intelligence, crowded with characters who are less than the sum of their arbitrary tics. A third drawback is that seemingly every other character on television is now a white young professional who lives in Manhattan and goes out on unfortunate blind dates; bizarrely, all four of NBC's high-rated Thursday-night comedies (Friends, The Single Guy, Seinfeld and Caroline in the City) are in that vein. Fox at least had the wit to set Partners, one if its twentysomething shows, in San Francisco...
TIPTOEING PAST THE DANK AND murk of the Manhattan neighborhood called Hell's Kitchen, you walk into a huge tent where Pomp Duck and Circumstance is performed and enter a different world. Inside the bordello-red lobby area, tuxedoed giants and midgets say hello. In an alcove, T shirts and robes with a Matisse monogram are for sale. So are the pieces of Rosenthal china on which you will dine. A bartender pours you a glass of the house Chardonnay. Nine bucks...
British nuclear physicist Joseph Rotblat and the anti-nuclear group he helped found jointly won the Nobel Peace Prize. Rotblat, who resigned from the Manhattan Project before it developed the first atom bomb, started the Pugwash Conference to work toward the eventual elimination of all nuclear weapons. Pugwash takes its name from the Nova Scotia fishing village where it was founded...