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...yeah. After backup quarterback Steve Kezirian's rousing performance on Saturday, no one doubts, that the Crimson has two guys who can run the offense...
This isn't to say that Kezirian will always be the backup. And it's not to take away from his considerable contributions in earning Saturday's victory over Colgate...
...just underground, disguised as songwriting. Once, a reclusive Emily Dickinson could spin out her feathery verses and send them next door to her sister-in-law, content to preserve her New England obscurity. Today a would-be Dickinson is more likely to grab a guitar, put together a backup band and hit the road. That was precisely the path taken by Nanci Griffith, a wide-eyed Texas waif who may just be one of America's best poets -- and for sure is one of its best songwriters...
...overdue electricity bills hadn't been paid, so Moscow's regional power authority cut off the electricity -- to the central command of Russia's strategic nuclear missile forces. The headquarters, in a Moscow suburb, was forced to switch to a backup generator; its overdue bill totaled almost $1 million. An official statement said that "the military preparedness of the strategic missile forces was not impaired and is, as always, at the necessary level." But later in the week, nuclear submarine-building plants in the Arctic city of Severodvinsk were forced to shut down when the local power company...
...serious business of reproduction. Technology has made it possible to uncouple sex and babymaking; ecology has made it necessary. Now all that remains is for us to make the cultural leap to an ecologically responsible sexual ethic. This means, at a minimum, guaranteeing contraception, with abortion as a backup, to all who might need it. But it also means telling our teenagers the hard ecological truth -- which is probably also the best news they could get -- that sex, in our overpopulated world, is best seen as a source...