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...game, which Harvard lost, 27-25, was a sloppily played affair featuring five Crimson turnovers. When the Crimson wasn’t turning the ball over, it was watching Crusader quarterback Brian Hall pick its defense apart. Hall—now a senior—completed 16-of-23 passes for 144 yards in the game and also added 116 yards rushing on 23 carries...
...paper, Harvard’s 4-1 loss at UConn last season was among its worst of the season in the eyes of the NCAA tournament selection committee, because the Huskies ended up with a losing record. The game was a sluggish affair, due largely to a one-week layoff caused by Sept. 11. Harvard outshot the Huskies, but a hot UConn goaltender tilted the game’s result the other...
Fathers (or father figures) also try to connect with their kids in ABC's 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter (Tuesdays, 8 p.m. E.T.) and the WB's remake of the 1966-71 Family Affair (Thursdays, 8 p.m. E.T.). Both sitcoms' pilots were funded by the advertisers' group Family Friendly Programming Forum (F.F.P.F.), which sponsors "uplifting" series and also underwrote Gilmore Girls. (Two other F.F.P.F.-funded series will debut later in the season.) And both are gooier than a Krispy Kreme. Rules casts John Ritter as a suburban dad with two teen daughters...
These shows aren't complete throwbacks. Family Affair is helped by Tim Curry's updated take on the butler, Mr. French, whom he plays as a crank who knows and cares nothing about children. ("I also have a great deal to learn about wolves and dirigibles," he snarls, "and little interest in learning it.") And on each we see how "family friendly" has changed. The hot daughter in Rules walks around with visible bra straps and thong straps; on Family Affair, after the kids ruin Uncle Bill's date, he sees them jumping on their new bed and says, "Testing...
...nearly 200 patients whom psychologist Ilene Philipson has treated for overinvestment in work and whose experiences inform Philipson's provocative new book, Married to the Job: Why We Live to Work and What We Can Do About It. A resident of Oakland, Calif., Philipson, 52, describes how Americans' love affair with work might be great for corporate productivity but can have terrible personal consequences. Her book is well timed, with millions of Americans newly laid off and millions more working harder than ever to pick up the slack. "In giving it all to our jobs, we are running a great...