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...important price of cotton. "It's a market price," Shaw explains, "and it's set before you ever try to sell your cotton, and it's set probably before you gin your cotton and before you gather it or grow it or even plant your seed." During Shaw's prime farming years (roughly 1906 to 1932), cotton brought as little as a nickel and as much as 40? a pound...
...NCAA selection committee awarded Harvard the number-three seed in the tourney, which means that they will play the number-two team, Brown. The University of Connecticut, which is the only team to defeat Brown this season, nabbed the number-one spot, and will play Bridgeport, the fourth seed...
Boston College's Brenda Schafer, the number two seed and tournament champion, eliminated top Radcliffe singles player Lissa Muscatine in the quarterfinals, 6-0, 7-5. Brandeis's number one seed, Polly Hannes, eliminated Denise Thal in the semis...
...uncharted waters far from the Mediterranean island of Pianosa, the setting for his World War II novel. His voyage in Something Happened takes him through the psyche of one man, Robert Slocum. And like Ulysses, sleeping under a pile of leaves, like an ember buried beneath ashes, a small seed of light from his previous work has survived. The bright, animated fires of Catch-22 have died down, but now a new fire has sprung from its still-hot coals, burning a blue flame of discontent and throwing dissonant shadows...
...adjustments curdled my stomach and made me yearn for the complacency of the West coast. We endlessly talked about Harvard's malignant llness and worried that we were especially susceptible to infection of the Harvard germ since we were already suffering from a mild case of Sophomore Slump. The seed of the well-known germ--ambition--could easily generate into a sick and competitive need to achieve, produce, and be known. We were depressed, felt oppressed by the confines of the "world's greatest university", and wanted to avoid becoming diseased at all costs...