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That’s when Brandon Roy, 19, a total stranger who awaited his friend’s turn on a nearby rope swing, came to help...
...Utah and Vermont) went Republican, and five went Democratic (Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire, North Carolina and West Virginia), with Washington's race too close to call. But in the most closely watched and heavily bankrolled races, the G.O.P. prevailed. In Missouri Matt Blunt, the son of four-term Congressman Roy Blunt, beat state auditor Claire McCaskill; the two candidates spent a combined $7.3 million, also a likely state record. And in Utah a scion of one of the state's richest families, Jon Huntsman Jr., handily trounced Scott Matheson Jr. Matheson was supposed to be the best Democratic gubernatorial hope...
Cult hit status for Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics Roy J. Glauber’s A-29 lecture might be improbable, but students and professors alike can appreciate lecture videos with a legitimate mass appeal. It doesn’t seem terribly likely that “watching old lecture videos” will become a popular hobby any time soon, but the resource presents intriguing possibilities. Not since the heady days of “School House Rock” has education provided so many laughs, and there’s no shame in taking advantage of it. Indeed, Glauber?...
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DIED. RODNEY DANGERFIELD, 82, stand-up comic whose old-fashioned style of one-liners thrived in an era of hip young satirists; of complications following heart surgery; in Los Angeles. After struggling as a Catskills comic, using the stage name Jack Roy, he left the business for 12 years and sold aluminum siding. But he made a comeback in his 40s, with a new name (suggested by a club owner) and a new catchphrase, "I don't get no respect." A zealous joke writer--he would jot them down on the cardboard from his laundered shirts--he got his first...