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...American senior captain Tom Blake is beginning play today--fittingly--in the All--American Championships held in Austin, Texas. The No. 19 player in the nation is facing college tennis finest...
...dressed casually but expensively, his well-tailored shirt an odd hybrid, country-and-western in style, but with extra long cuffs that the actor has chosen to leave unbuttoned so that they flap modishly about his wrists. It's a look that suggests sartorial detente between Garth Brooks and Austin Powers. Which, when you think about it--if, like me, it's your job to think about it--is pretty much where Pitt would fall on the spectrum of masculine iconography, his fidgety Midwestern guyness touched with just a hint of dandified self-regard. This isn't always the case...
...Austin Sloper (Albert Finney), the man whose residence we have entered, is more derailed by his wife's death than delighted by his daughter's birth. Named for her mother, and thus a constant reminder of Dr. Sloper's loss, Catherine (Leigh) grows up with little hope of connecting with her distant, resentful father. Worse, Austin's sister Lavinia (Maggie Smith) fancies herself a surrogate mother but is too uncouth and undisciplined to make of Catherine a sophisticated lady...
...Texas Cowboys are banned from the University of Texas at Austin until the year 2000 as a result of hazing activities which led to the death of Gabriel B. Higgins. According to a June 23 article in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Higgins, a sophomore pledge, was drinking heavily at an intiation picnic when he drowned in the Colorado River...
Although other schools-such as Stanford, MIT and the University of Texas at Austin-have organized similar competitions that were sometimes open to Harvard students, this is the first time an entrepreneurship contest has been offered specifically for Harvard undergraduates...