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Gary Reiner, the no. 1 Crimson racketman, won the singles flight A tournament. In the semi-finals he defeated Princeton's no. 1 and first seed in the tournament, Bill Dutton, before sweeping through UPenn's no. 1 Rick Myer in a three-set match to wrap up his ECAC victory...
...hounded her since the beginning of the case, the web of facts breaks apart in a cascade of "allegedly"s. The ambiguities pile up quickly: The reporter even records a full page of argument between a cook and a secretary about whether their employer will have crepes with poppy seed or creme Brulee for Sunday breakfast. The dispute is never properly settled. The question, "Who did what to whom?" that was asked and answered with such compassionate precision in Group Portrait is washed out by a torrent of conflicting allegations impossible to reconcile, and by the unresolved issue of just...
Foundations like to be "seed money"--the first supporters of a new field of study. Soviet research is hardly new, and it is time, say all the center's God-parents, from the Dean's office to the Ford Foundation, to walk on your own. The center, after 27 years, must go out into the world for itself...
Some problems-unlike the squaring of the circle or the conversion of the Chinese-do have a solution. So David Burpee, 82, has finally discovered. All his life, Burpee has been devoted to the task of making a better marigold. As chief of the W. Atlee Burpee mail-order seed company from 1915 to 1970, Burpee found ways to invent new varieties large and small, but his main quest was for a pure white marigold, one that could be cross-pollinated with existing yellow, orange, and rust varieties to create a rainbow of new colors. In 1954, Burpee made...
Though rarely advertised as such at organic food stores, several herbs have been employed for centuries as aphrodisiacs. Ogden Nash ("Parsley/Is garsley") to the contrary, the indispensable parsleyan garnish, Petroselinum crispum, has been prized as a guarantor of virility since at least the 1st century. (Its seeds also enjoy fame as a baldness cure.) Without herbs, the world would not have that honored amorific, the martini. Coriander seed is not only used as a spicy seasoning but is also reputed to be an erotic stimulant and is used to flavor gin. And Artemisia, or wormwood, is an essential ingredient...