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Despite the continued strong play of Arnold and Tseng, Harvard was clearly outmatched, dropping four straight-setters to fall 5-2. Particularly telling was the result of the anticipated duel between the nation's 19th and 20th ranked players, Blake and Pepperdine's Simon Aspelin, which ended up in a 6-1, 6-4 romp by Aspelin...
...World, Ready or Not (Simon & Schuster; 528 pages; $27.50) William Greider examines the forces behind this global economic revolution, comparing them to a giant agricultural machine that "throws off enormous mows of wealth and bounty while it leaves behind great furrows of wreckage." Greider, the national editor of Rolling Stone magazine, has a remarkable talent for spotting the economic trends that buffet and baffle ordinary people. He explains cogently why jobs move rapidly from country to country and what impact that has on both the losers and the winners. Drawing on expertise and sources he developed while writing Secrets...
...only should Holocaust victims or their relatives have the opportunity to retrieve money and possessions [WORLD, Feb. 24], but they should also collect interest from the Swiss banks. And they shouldn't even have to mention the word lawsuit. SIMON HUCK Ottawa...
...moment when everyone is saying the studios have lost the knack for making solid, broadly appealing entertainments, 'The Devil?s Own' suggests the skill may only be mislaid. Of course, it helps when you hire grownups to do the job." BOOKS . . . JOHN WAYNE'S AMERICA: In his new history, (Simon & Schuster; 380 pages; $26) Gary Wills imagines that the the fact that John Wayne still tops polls asking us to identify our favorite movie stars some 18 years after his death must tell us something about the soul of post-modern America. And perhaps it does, says TIME's Richard...
...Miles Simon scored nine of his 11 points during that late stretch. The rally allowed Arizona (20-9) to avoid losing in the first round for the fourth time in six years...