Word: brief
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...restaurant in the FleetCenter. All four teams competing in the tournament--Harvard, Boston University, Boston College and Northeastern--were represented by their coaches and senior players. The luncheon is an opportunity for the Boston media to interview the coaches and team members. Each coach and captain gave a brief speech assessing their team's season to date, while the captains commented upon the personal importance of the Beanpot and their memories of the tournament. The following are excerpts from those speeches...
...worry. I haven't always been a ski bum," Kevin F. Fitzpatrick '83 said to me on the chair lift up Okemo Mountain, where my roommates and I had sallied for a day or two of our brief intersession. Kevin was charged with the 1:15 group lesson for Skill 8 last Friday at the Ludlow, Vt. ski site. I was one of two members of the group, the other being a somewhat mute 13 year-old who, like myself, was supposedly proficient in parallel turning and sought to bridge the chasm between the intermediate blue squares and the advanced...
...crest jewel of America's (brief) era of enlightenment. News media, public officials and those with a voice or forum within what remains of contemporary culture have an excellent chance to halt this sacrilege, before Sony-Disney get on board and turn a natural gem into a theme park. The "opposite shore" of the pond remains, at the moment, pristine--so you can see what used to be. The fucked-up side, incredibly, is now forbidden except to "hard hats." The second side goes next...
...posthumous assault continues in Richard Pollak's The Creation of Dr. B. (Simon & Schuster; 478 pages; $28), a glum prosecutor's brief that is the second life of Bettelheim to be published within a year. A prolix psychobiography by Anglo-French journalist Nina Sutton, Bettelheim: A Life and A Legacy (Basic-Books; 606 pages; $35), covered the same ground but more sympathetically...
...Simpson had been on the witness stand for most of two hours last Friday afternoon when the judge took a brief recess. Two elderly women who had occupied coveted seats available to the public decided they had heard enough. Leaving the Santa Monica, California, courthouse, one of them said, "Well, you either believe the whole thing...