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With a golf ball in my throat, and stunned bythe unbelievable celebration going on all aroundme (at Princeton, the teams sit with theaudience), I knew then that it would take thepassing of a year before the bitter taste in mymouth could be cleansed away...
...little hungry, I set off for OCS-OCL to look for a summer job. Maybe someone would hire a devious turncoat. I couldn't help chuckling at a poster touting Sylvester Stallone as Hasty Pudding Theatricals' Man of the Year. This time, the Beast grabbed me by the throat. "Imperialist dog," it growled, "Rambo-loving fascist! I bet you step on Third World nations before breakfast...
...assumes you're a law student," Finkelstein says. But she says that PLAP has allowed her to be on the board of directors for two years, and that "the people here are incredibly warm. I think that's a real contrast to the general kind of competitive and cut-throat attitude at Harvard...
DIED. Philip Larkin, 63, critically acclaimed British poet of almost defiant diffidence and pervasive melancholy who once said that "deprivation is for me what daffodils were to Wordsworth"; of throat cancer; in Hull, England. A reclusive provincial librarian for more than 40 years after graduating from Oxford, Larkin honed his clarity of observation, particularly regarding homely, accessible subject matter, in two novels (Jill, 1946, and A Girl in Winter, 1947) and four spare collections of verse published at roughly ten- year intervals. He shunned the readings, lectures and interviews that increasing fame brought him. The overwhelming favorite to succeed Poet...
...dance instructor control a dozen three-to 13-year-olds on a particularly rowdy Friday afternoon. While the teacher shows the kids how to "roll-slap-clap-slap-roll" to the tune of Michael Jackson's "Thriller," Dopico is busy one minute consoling a girl with a sore throat who can't dance, but who can run all around the auditorium, the next minute jumping around on stage, helping the smallest girl in the class remember when to clap and when to roll...