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...Reported by Ann Blackman/Washington and Ann M. Simmons/Pine Ridge
...some places, such as South Bend and Ann Arbor, the game is the centerpiece if a weekend-long celebration which consumes the entire school as thousands of alumni make a pilgrimage to join thousands of screaming students and watch their favorite sons vie for a national championship. Here in the Ivy League, of course, things are a little different. Far from seeing a great carnival, a person standing in the middle of the Yard might not even realize a game was going on, save for the occasional fly-by by the marching band...
...Ann Beattie's fifth novel focuses on the emotional messes that ensnare New England college professor Marshall Lockard and, before him, his father Miles. "It's enough to make one wince," says TIME's Martha Duffy. "Setting her story in academia -- a trap for many novelists -- Beattie readily succumbs to the temptation to flaunt the detritus of years of reading, watching and listening to the culture. In the opening five pages are references to Richard Nixon, Elvis Presley, Henry Kissinger and Marianne Faithfull. Though an authentic voice of the late 1970s and '80s, with a particular talent for detail...
...would have hoped that Harvard would be above it all. Like it or not, as the nation's best-known university, Harvard occupies the position of intellectual standard-bearer for millions of people. For the university whose professors appear everywhere from "Nova" to "Ann Landers" to provide the same honors to a murderer as to her victim is not only an insult to the family and friends of Trang Ho, it is downright irresponsible. It perpetuates the message that anything is forgivable, so long as you yourself are a victim...
...major legislative committee. So far this year, D'Amato has leveraged his Banking Committee power to raise $14 million for Senate candidates and open the wallets of Wall Street for Bob Dole, who calls him "the man who won't take yes for an answer." Common Cause president Ann McBride doesn't share Dole's sense of humor on the subject. "When the Banking chairman comes calling as the party's chief fund raiser," she says, "and comes on in a particularly aggressive way, it isn't a scandal waiting to happen. It's a scandal right...