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Harvard did not take home a trophy this time. Gold, silver, bronze--there are only three kinds of trophies. They haven't devised a fourth one. No one wants a chrome--or other unprecious metal--staring out of a trophy case. Better just to forget it.
At any rate I was following a trail of dollar bills that led up Fifth Avenue when I came across a bag lady pushing a shopping cart full of greenbacks. The "do not walk" signal was flashing at the intersection, but one of the rotating wheels on the bottom of...
H. William Gannon, who has been head porter at the union since 1949, remembers the incident well. "I locked up the building at 10:30 p.m. that night, and figured everything was secure," he said, "but the next morning I came in to find the barrel staring me in the...
He was, after all, that weird guy who did those soup cans a quarter of a century (was it really that long?) ago. The working-class hero, son of an immigrant Czech coal miner named Warhola in Pittsburgh, who for a time acquired a court that seemed almost Habsburgian in...
One day in Meru, the Land Cruiser glides through the lion-colored grasses. It is late afternoon, and lions everywhere are rising from their long day's slumber to think about hunting. The driver, a Masai named Simeon K. Londaga, sees the lion and stops and points. Poking his head...