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...championship Tom Tripp recorded his second pin in as many tournament matches. This time it came in 2:30, as compared with his 34 second effort in the semifinals. "We're improving but I can't say this is any indication of what the season will be," concluded a semi-enthused...
...Wells. Yet the book, which seems to be a fictional memoir, is profoundly preoccupied with its hero's growing awareness that the woman posing as his aunt is really his mother, and that he himself knows nothing about his father. Born in 1914, West is a semi-public figure in the U.S. For almost 20 years he has been a wide-ranging critic for The New Yorker. He has written seven novels, including one called Heritage about a boy outgrowing his resentment that his celebrated parents never bothered to marry. Reading David Rees Among Others, one inevitably begins...
Yosuf, 36, lives in Seattle and is the former coach of one time Harvard great Anil Nayar. En route to the title match, teacher and pupil met in the semi-finals with the result a 15-8, 15-9, 15-11 victory for Khan...
...these two simple markers. Early man attempted in his religions to stretch the life span beyond physical boundaries; the Judeo-Christian tradition represents the most elaborate and most convincing attempt to defy the natural limits of life. The attempt to extend life has found perhaps its most convincing semi-scientific justification in the work of C.G. Jung, the psychologist who broke with Freud to become a mystic...
...true that he is a certified Seer of Apollo, and the future drifts before his eyes as effortlessly as the past or the present. So the reader need not be really surprised to find Lycurgus (spelled Ly-kourgos, in the barbarous tradition of contemporary university classics departments), a dim semi-mythological figure, flinging out his arms in V-for-victory signs like General de Gaulle, or to hear members of the Lacedaemonian jet set chatter psychoanalysis, market analysis and Black Panther ideology while they swap wives by the suburban swimming pool...