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...with 18 saves...Pujols ended his Harvard career with 100 goals and 66 assists. Co-Captain Tom Corcoran finished with 94 goals and 33 assists...Corcoran led the Crimson in goals-scored this year with 32...McCaffrey was the assist leader with 17...Vita, who sported a newly grown beard Saturday, concluded his season with 178 saves and his career with 193 saves and 116 goals allowed...
UMASS is far from perfect: some lab facilities are crowded, as are many classrooms, and the school has none of the usual collegial amenities for the all-commuter student body or staff. McCormack's director, Edmund Beard, admits that UMASS "has all the problems of a new kid on the block and then some." But, he adds, "it's well on the way to making a name for itself, and it's the greatest educational bargain (next year's in-state tuition: $1,296) in New England...
...something preposterously overdone but without self-knowledge or irony. It is comic and sad and awful. An 18th century French merchant of great wealth named Beaujean came to the same dead end as Marcos with his Swiss gold and his ruined kidneys. "He owned amazing gardens," the historian Miriam Beard wrote of Beaujean, "but he was too fat to walk in them . . . He had countless splendid bedrooms and suffered from insomnia . . . a monstrous, bald, bloated old man in a bed sculptured and painted to resemble a gilded basket of roses...
Vile Kyle sports a scraggly beard, guzzles beer and rides a motorcycle. Doug Plug looks so much like a fire hydrant that dogs eye him affectionately. These disgusting creatures, along with other urchins like Ghastly Ashley and Messy Tessie, are the Garbage Pail Kids, who are depicted on a hot-selling collection of bubble-gum cards manufactured by Topps Chewing Gum, the Brooklyn company that has produced baseball trading cards for 35 years. To the older generation, the Garbage Pail Kids are repulsive parodies of the Cabbage Patch Kids, but to the preteen set, ugly is beautiful. Says Auronda Barnes...
...Filipinos who have joined the New People's Army in the past few years. An activist since his student days, Victus, 36, became disillusioned with the political system after losing an election for town councilor in 1980. Dressed in a yellow T shirt and sporting a mustache and small beard, he speaks earnestly about Philippine Communism. "In central Luzon, many Communists like me are not direct victims of Marcos," Victus acknowledges, "while in Mindanao, many join the party because they have been victims." Disciplined and ideologically committed, Victus is the sort of man the N.P.A. likes to put forward...