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ADISEMBODIED VOICE in the darkness carries the audience back to the ninth of February, 1964. A group of singers called Forever Plaid are killed in a contretemps with a school bus. 25 years later, they're back on earth again--four well-shaven ghosts with their hair parted at the extreme left, dressed in white dinner jackets adorned with bow ties. And they're staging "the biggest comeback since Lazarus...
...meet was decided by the latter half of the top ten, as Princeton took the fourth, fifth, sixth, ninth and tenth spots...
...those games, Harvard recorded victories over ninth-ranked Massachusetts, Holy Cross and Pennsylvania, losing only to second-ranked Connecticut. The possibility of taking the Ivy title seemed very real...
Nelson grew up on Park Avenue, heir to a frozen-food business in Brooklyn. In my brother's class at school, he acted richer than the other rich kids and was known more as a snappy dresser than a brain. Math was particularly tough for him -- an F in ninth grade and a D+ that summer; a C in 10th-grade algebra, but an F in geometry. In the 11th grade he pulled math up to C and C- (matching steady Cs in English), but failed citizenship. ("And that would eliminate. . .," his American history teacher paused, in a lecture about...
Defining unwelcome or offensive advances sounds like a subjective judgment; many people last week were worried that sexual harassment is anything an accuser says it is. But in a landmark ruling, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court in California ruled that the law covers any remark or behavior that a "reasonable woman" would find to be a problem -- and acknowledged that a woman's perception might differ from a man's. Judge Robert Beezer wrote that "conduct that many men consider unobjectionable may offend many women." He noted that because women are much more likely to be victims of rape...