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...read John Grisham's The Chamber to get some idea about what death row was really like; now he's reading For the Defense by Rubin Ellis. But he is still caught up in memories of childhood. The father of a recreational-league basketball player whose team was an arch rival of Cousin's squad is in the next cell. "It was the only team that beat us," says Cousin. "That was the last game I played before I got arrested." Cousin still thinks about his father, or the man he believes is his father, Epps. "I've called...
...only did the Crimson's 17-7 victory over the arch-rival Bulldogs mark Harvard's first-ever perfect Ivy-League season and its first nine-win season since the 1919 national championship campaign, but two more individual records fell as well...
...over arch-rival Yale next week, and Harvard will record seven Ivy League wins for the first time in school history...
What's happened? For three decades the twentysomething years were marked with arch abandon, each generation extending playtime a little longer. Not so long ago, this was the time for visits to nightclubs, apartments decorated with listing-board bookcases and taped posters, and rendezvous with the one--or the second or the third--who was about to get away. Now, rather suddenly, this generation dreams of Pottery Barn, slipcovered sofas and tuna-noodle surprise. "I read cookbooks," admits Angela Lee, 27, a New York teacher. "And my last five social occasions? I cooked and friends came over...
Everyone is talking about Ally McBeal. Produced by David E. Kelley, who created Picket Fences and Chicago Hope, the show portrays a single woman struggling with work and love, and it has become another subject of arch, joshing disputes between the sexes, like football and Michael Bolton. To many women, Ally is quirky, contradictory and wonderful; to many men, she is a simpering drag. Our mission here is to settle this question once and for all. The answer? Simpering drag, but not hopeless...