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Pochoda held just a three seed entering the tournament, which meant the road to the finals ran through top-seeded Princeton freshman Julia Beaver. It took five games for Pochoda to put the freshman in her place, as she went on to win 9-1, 7-9, 9-7, 6-9, 9-6 in a hotly contested veteran versus rookie matchup...
Stepping through the door, one enters a schizophrenic barber shop. The single aisle has counters on either side: one sports old-fashioned toiletries, while the other is a condensed CVS. This is the place Harvard gentlemen shop for for an elegant shaving-cream brush (real beaver-fur brushes sell for $40 to 100). The store will also satisfy any student obsessed with hair care: over forty different hairbrushes are discreetly displayed behind glass...
...digital thermometers, didn't know that they were playing with a poison--one that can be absorbed through vapors or prolonged contact with the skin. They didn't know that the expression "mad as a hatter" refers to the 19th century workmen who used mercury to cure beaver skins for top hats and over time developed nervous twitches, drooled and spoke incoherently...
...Seinfeld is the first to admit, it's been an impressive and improbable run for a show he has famously said is about nothing, which, of course, is charmingly disingenuous. Because if Seinfeld--arguably television's first genuine comedy of manners since Leave It to Beaver--is about nothing, then so are the works of Jane Austen and Noel Coward. If Seinfeld seems trivial, it is only because manners have so devolved over the course of our century. Like the rest of us, the show's overly analytic foursome must pick their way through an increasingly chaotic social battlefield, forced...
...first sibling, Socks is going through a tough time. Deirdre Ryan-Rivas, an animal-behavior counselor with the ASPCA, says Socks "is going to be a little upset. The cat needs to have a room of his own. Fortunately, they have a lot to choose from." Dr. Bonnie Beaver, a veterinary behaviorist at Texas A&M, agrees. "The biggest problem you worry about is that the dog can bother the cat around the litter-box area. The cat gets all postured and ready to eliminate and along comes this pest. So a lot of them stop using the litter...