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...ailments--turnovers, undisciplined defense, inability to break a press--point to one thing: an inadequately drilled team. Against nationally ranked teams. Harvard would be beaten badly. Harvard has outscored its opponents most efficiently when playing a fast, but controlled, running game. An offense reminiscent of the old Celtics or present-day Knicks would be ideal for this team...
...vivid and dramatic a writer as any novelist while also demonstrating that literature need not shrink from confronting social crises. Later, when Wilson turned to autobiographical essays as a fresh way of exploring the meanings of American life, he did so with a dignity and thoroughness that would put present-day first-person confessionalists to shame...
...Present-day Vietnamese find their suffering mirrored in the works of past poets...
Adolescence and old age occur half a century apart, and seem to have nothing in common. In fact, says Psychoanalyst James Anthony of Washington University in St. Louis, the two stages are sometimes psychologically similar; present-day youngsters, far more often than their predecessors, show symptoms of aging long before they are out of their teens...
...some 200,000 Chinese pouring onto the streets to remove the snow that had fallen during the visit. A compulsory exercise? To be sure, citizens who neglected their ditties would be severely chastised. But the visitors detected a civic spirit and camaraderie that are spectacularly lacking in the present-day U.S. In the long run, one of the most important questions about the U.S. and China will be just how much the two countries may learn from each other...