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Travelling seemed to be a common indiscretion last night. MIT's Sheila Lustes walked with the ball with nine seconds left, but the Radcliffe rally later fell short. The game ended with a loose ball bouncing around in front of the Radcliffe bench...
Harvard's bench showered captain Jim Strathmeyer with ebullient support as he took to the mats while a hyped-up partisan crowd cheered on the Quakers. The Crimson was trailing 16-13 when Strathmeyer knifed in for the deciding take-down. "He hit a guy with a fireman's carry and went on to clobber him," said Smith...
...Second Season may turn out to be memorable only because of a bench mark program, an offering against which all future shows must be measured. This is ALMOST ANYTHING GOES (ABC, Saturday, 8 p.m. E.S.T.), beyond doubt the worst thing ever offered in prime time. What happens is that the producers go round to small towns and get up teams to compete against one another in a series of games and races that are cunningly devised to make the participants look like idiots-generally through the simple expedient of putting grease on one or more of the obstacles they...
...member-recounts the Schecters' efforts to apprehend the peculiarities of Soviet society. For Correspondent Schecter, working in Moscow meant learning how to make the most of his mamka (KGB-planted Russian journalists assigned to "assist" foreign newsmen) while cultivating nonofficial sources and picking up dissident tracts at park-bench meetings. The children had to adjust to the strict and dogmatic school system: Second-Grader Kate, for example, was taught that the light bulb and locomotive had been invented by Russians. They also found themselves-and their chewing gum and felt-tipped pens-the objects of envy and curiosity...
...full. It is smoking-break time, but today each hall spews out no more than a handful of students. Most light up madly, but a couple of non-smokers stand dazed, scratching themselves and stretching and muttering obscene phrases to their friends. Two sit on a concrete bench, with a spread of coffee cups and a thermos laid out between them. It looks like a picnic. One quickly points out that the final examination for Church History 103 is nothing of the kind: the reading list is "bottomless," 2500 pages worth, and it didn't help that they...