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...clear that the backs and forwards did not work together in bringing the ball up the field and the team (4-4-4) has not notched a win in their last six games. One can only hope that the "Ghost of Harvard Soccer Teams Present" will replace his predecessor by Saturday's game with Penn. New England Soccer Poll W-L-T 1. Brown 7-4-1 2. Vermont 11-2-1 3. Rhode Island 7-3-1 4. Boston University 9-5-2 5. UMass 7-4-0 6. Dartmouth 6-4-1 7. HARVARD...
...wall in Cliff Saunders' office at the BIC is a poem. It is written right on the wall, along with other poems by the same artist. The poet is Will Basque, Cliff's predecessor as executive director of BIC, who now works at the Massachusetts Bureau of Indian Affairs. It reads...
...past years, there has been speculation about whether Radcliffe would benefit from having a woman coach. Peter Raymond, Graves's predecessor as the heavyweight skipper, said last spring he thought Radcliffe needed a woman coach because he found it difficult to "deal with some of the problems women athletes experience. Only another woman would understand them," he explained...
...frightening view. I went a bit crazy." Flung into the celebrity circuit, he was "eaten alive, asked questions which I felt invasive and impossible to answer." He produced another book, The Looking Glass War, but it brought little satisfaction; reviewers said the adventure could not compare with its smashing predecessor. Le Carré traveled to Dublin to assist in the script of The Spy Who Came In from the Cold. "I did it," he insists, "because Richard Burton was sulking and couldn't say his lines. That was my first and last taste of show...
Indeed, any resemblance between the old Trib and the new entry is coincidental. Though Saffir has chosen as editor John Denson, seventyish, who also edited the Herald Tribune (from 1961 through 1962), the new Trib will lack one important characteristic of its predecessor: news. Denson has designed a stylish, magazine-like tabloid filled with canned features from syndicates and wire services, graced with an aggressively pro-business editorial page and almost devoid of breaking stories. Saffir defends that formula, which was first presented in a June 27 preview edition, on the grounds that the city's three major dailies...