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...remain undefeated in league play, Restic will have to place greater confidence in Morgan's passing ability. The tentative Harvard offense has been unable to put points on the board in the last two games without Giardi, although Morgan is an apt signal-caller...
...fears are gone," he said. "The new international agenda is apt to be led by population control, conservation of resources. The challenge is going to be how do you sustain 5 billion people on this planet...
...AIDS and a gradual unveiling of a serial killer -- all with mordant humor (a man going to a pickup bar shouts to his female roommate, "I have a blind date with destiny!"). A hit in Fraser's native Edmonton, Alta., and in Chicago, Human Remains is not only stylistically apt and journalistically observant about its rock-and-anomie world but also deeply felt and thought. It stunningly blends punk popular appeal and poetic power...
...reference is apt. Like Thoreau, Iyer combines an acute sense of place with a mordant irony. The revealing detail is his specialty: he recalls "an old monk brush, brush, brushing a pathway clean . . . a sitting Buddha imparting a peace so strong it felt like wisdom . . . Yet one could never forget the world entirely. Floating up from below came the sound, plangent and forlorn, of a garbage collector's truck playing its melancholy song...
Cliches may be cliches, but they are usually also true. The great nuggets of conventional wisdom about Southern California -- the easy embrace of novelty, an approach to creative endeavors largely unencumbered by tradition, a profound attachment to cars -- are not only apt; they have converged to form an extraordinary new center for automobile design...