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...preseason All-Ivy team would have a roster of four guards and just one forward: Buck Jenkins of Columbia, Sean Jackson of Princeton, Ed Petersen of Yale and Chuck Savage of Brown would be the guards, while Crimson Captain Ron Mitchell would be the only non-guard on the roster...
Right behind the Bears will be Columbia, riding the skills of guard Buck Jenkins (14.5 ppg), who is on pace to become the third leading scorer in Lions history. Dane Holmes (10.6 ppg) and Eric Speaker (9.2 ppg) add depth, but there is little else in the Lions' bite...
...Mississippi, Texas, New Jersey and Virginia, incumbents were washed out of office by a wave of antitax, antirecession, antigovernment sentiment. Though both parties posted gains as well as losses, the results reflected a sour, throw-the-bums-out mood that threatened officeholders everywhere. Only Washington State seemed to buck that trend by turning down a ballot initiative that would have imposed strict term limits on the state's congressional delegation. But milder term-limitation measures applying to local officials were approved in Houston and Cincinnati, and at least a dozen states will consider variations next year...
EDGE (PBS, Nov. 6 and 10 on most stations). PBS's new monthly magazine series on pop culture, with host Robert Krulwich, enlivens some familiar topics (Grateful Dead fanatics, Norman Mailer's new novel) with personal points of view from such contributors as Buck Henry and critic James Wolcott...
...were entirely eliminated, to minimize the ratings damage. The games themselves have featured such distractions as Andrea Joyce and Lesley Visser roaming the stands for human-interest angles (and a few extra female viewers). The camerawork has been solid, but the announcing just adequate. Play-by-play veteran Jack Buck bobbles too many easy chances. (Was it a strike or a checked swing? Watch the ump, not Jack.) Tim McCarver, his partner in the booth, knows his stuff but tends to babble. And ratings, for all but the final two games, were down once again. Somewhere Red Barber is weeping...