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...Harvard women's tennis team, playing without captain Ivy Wang, went for its third straight ECAC Championship last weekend at Princeton. The third time was not the charm for the Crimson, as it lost a heartbreaking 5-4 match to Yale to drop out in the second round. In the consolation round, it lost another squeaker by an identical score to B.C. Despite the overall results, Harvard Coach Gordon Graham was still upbeat about the results...
...Award, one of the school's highest honors. Other credits: he was acting president of the student government, most valuable player in his basketball league, a Little League star and an accomplished saxophone player. Teachers describe Donny as a natural leader who lights up a room with his charm. His success, says assistant principal Judi Callanan Devlin, "is due to his innate ability and his work ethic--and then his mother is very clear about her expectations...
...wandering shaman who stumbles into fame on a home shopping network. But the real star is Jeff Goldblum as the network's frazzled manager. With his lupine smile and fake-intimate voice, he pushes a line of patter that is just a bit too slick to pass for charm. And when his life starts crumbling, you can almost smell his comic flop sweat through the screen. Tom Schulman's script is smart about the media's ability to create celebrities--and the viewer's need to embrace them--until it goes soft-hearted and -headed by denouncing the very salesmanship...
...signal, recurring lesson of PJ Harvey's music, is that desire leads us dangerously, thirstily, curiously into places where we would otherwise fear to tread. Harvey's lyrics were too lacerating to be mere come-ons, but the potency and drama of her music worked like a snake charm. The album and the woman combined the terror and the wonder of a hydra...
...maybe there is hope, after all. Perhaps we can break free of our hopelessly domestic mindsets, our blue jeans and baseball caps, our Starbucks and Sam Adams. Why order a pizza when foccacia has twice the charm? Who needs Poland Spring when San Pellagrino has both bubbles and attitude? Nationalism is so passe...