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Slovenly speech comes off the same spool. Vocabulary, like blue jeans, is being drained of color and distinction. A complete sentence in everyday speech $ is as rare as a man's tie in the swank Polo Lounge of the Beverly Hills Hotel. People communicate in chopped-up phrases, relying on grunts and chants of "you know" or "I mean" to cover up a damnable incoherence. Neatness should be no less important in language than it is in dress. But spew and sprawl are taking over. The English language is one of the greatest sources of wealth in the world...
...correction to the article by Anne E. McCabe on polo ["Polo Is Back in the Headlines," March 10]: When the women's polo team takes to the field this spring it will not be for the first time. Polo began at Radcliffe in the fall of 1927 as part of the riding program. Enthusiasm was so high among the experienced riders that an old Cadillac stopped by the dorms at 6:15 a.m. three times a week to ferry riders to Glenfield Stables in West Medford. Plans were made for a varsity team, but so far no records have turned...
...Ritz-Carlton hotel? Or that he is a developer whose fondest wish is to run away with Sea Shepherd, a Greenpeace splinter group, and ram whale ships? Perhaps that he is a 36-year-old Massachusetts- born Sikh of French-Canadian extraction, in a turban and a Ralph Lauren polo shirt? Or that he read about this 102-acre property one Sunday in 1986 and bought it on a hunch three days later for $17.25 million, outbidding a group of Alaskan Indians bearing federal pollution-compensation credits? Around Singh, one sometimes needs to stop, press rewind and take...
...first year as a member of the Harvard men's water polo team, Co-Captain Andy Freed was on a Crimson squad that placed eighth at the Eastern Championships. This same team lost to Navy...
...This was the best year in the history of Harvard water polo by far," Freed said...