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Spend some other portion of the day in idleness, ardent and blissful idleness. Young people today work too hard, are worked too hard, for no purpose but someone else's gain. At the same time, keep up your love of sports. (I know I hardly have to tell you that.) Sports are about clean victories and perpetual renewals; every old game has a definite end, and every new one is a world reborn. Jogging is nice, but be sure to play something you can win. Winning is nicer...
Even the most ardent Crimson sports fan or Harvard historian would be hard-pressed to remember the last time a member of the men's tennis team advanced to the semifinals of the NCAA Championships before the 1997 success of the doubles team of senior Mitty Arnold and junior Tom Blake...
...been given to Tung Chee-hwa, a Hong Kong multimillionaire who lived for nine years in the U.S. and was handpicked by the communist bosses in Beijing to carry out their promise of a "high degree of autonomy" for the capitalist enclave. Looking over his shoulder, however, is an ardent spokesman for those who insist that Hong Kong can rule itself. Martin Lee stakes his claim to leadership on the voter's mandate to make Beijing live up to democratic...
...artist renewed, covering the ground at the height of his power, even if the album's 12 tunes work out, on average, to one every 10 months or so. Ask him why the album took so long, and Fogerty, 52 this week, has an explanation as honest and ardent as his lyrics: "The record was no f__ing good until now. There was no way I was going to make a record that was no good. You keep going until you get it. Thirty years ago, I was part of a world-famous rock-'n'-roll band. It's silly...
...Clinton to press ahead. But with Gephardt already stoking the opposition, Gore and others are urging caution, arguing that the President can't afford to alienate Democrats when he needs them on the budget. So far, Clinton seems to be siding with the go-slow camp, which, the most ardent free-traders fear, could sink any chance of striking a deal with Congress...