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After what appeared to be a ground-breaking season in 1996, in which it went 5-1 in the Ivy League and reached the ECAC finals, Harvard (7-10, 3-4 Ivy) endured a disappointing 1997 season, tying for fourth in the league and seldom showing the brilliance of which it was potentially capable...

Author: By Jamal K. Greene, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Field Hockey Falls Into Fourth Place | 6/4/1998 | See Source »

...suggested a theologian could "find ways of relooking" at the Pope's ban on female priests. He plans to state his fear of a schism "in the context of not wanting the Catholic Church to undergo what has happened to the Jewish community or the Lutherans, where groups seldom talk to each other." Framed that way, the plaint almost obligates John Paul to talk back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Firebrand's Valedictory | 5/25/1998 | See Source »

...killer" of jobs and economic growth, he says the Federal Government should be tossing animals and plants off the endangered list rather than putting them on. But the public feels otherwise. A Denver Post poll in March showed that 81% support protecting the little mouse that's seldom seen. "Their habitat is shrinking fast," warns Boulder mammalogist Carron Meaney. "We might find the mouse in 100 places now, but in 10 years 95 of those will be under concrete...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colorado: The Mouse That Roared | 5/4/1998 | See Source »

...assorted friends and lovers as they grow older. But nearly everything that happens in A Widow for One Year is foreshadowed or present in embryonic form in the novel's long opening section. Irving's use of suspense is peculiar and intriguing. The question he poses is seldom what will happen next; for example, he spills the beans quickly that Marion will reappear in the story 37 years after it begins. But this information is strictly between author and reader; the characters, realistically enough, are left in the dark. As Ruth begins imagining her fourth novel, about an unhappy love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Saga of Loss And Recovery | 5/4/1998 | See Source »

Walk the island's one-mile circumference, and you'll notice a number of FOR MONKS ONLY signs. When I checked in for the first time, Brother Jean-Marie, the frere hotelier, observed that he seldom returned to "the other side," which is what he called Cannes and the material world beyond. On my arrival, we spent an hour discussing things like Aristotle, St. Augustine, the human condition and contemporary affairs before he reminded me of the house "rules." "Do not talk to monks, go into the monks' living quarters or chat with other guests inside the abbey grounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Meditative Magic | 4/20/1998 | See Source »

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