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...year ago, the Harvard football team wrapped up an unbeaten, untied season in New Haven, Conn...
...soapy melodramas like All That Heaven Allows (1955) are respected by film buffs for their baroque sentimentality and cynical undertones. Directed by Todd Haynes, Far from Heaven stars Julianne Moore as a white 1950s housewife who falls for her black gardener (Dennis Haysbert), scandalizing the suburban populace of Hartford, Conn. Quaid is her overachieving husband, who confesses to her that he's gay. The expertly rendered performance (plus his own comeback story) could get Quaid his first Oscar nomination. "I had success back in the '80s, but I never really appreciated it then," he says. "I was on drugs...
Fuhrman redeemed himself--at least in the eyes of news-show bookers--by going to wealthy Greenwich, Conn., to look into the 1975 bludgeoning death of teenager Martha Moxley. The case had never been solved, though rumors pointed to two neighbor kids, Tommy and Michael Skakel, members of the extended Kennedy family. A bungled case, a famous name, the rich possibly getting off scot-free: the case was Fuhrman's white whale or, more accurately, his white O.J. After poking around, Fuhrman concluded that Michael had killed Moxley in a fit of jealousy because she liked abusive ladies' man Tommy...
...second-in-command, Ayman al-Zawahiri, were alive and in hiding, wouldn't they be making videotaped statements that refer to recent events for broadcast on the Arab TV station al-Jazeera? The audiotapes and obviously old videotapes that have been released are unimpressive. PASQUALE J. PIACENTE Newington, Conn...
What makes a college admissions officer say yes to one applicant and no to the next? To answer that question, New York Times education reporter Jacques Steinberg spent a year observing the selection process at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn. The result is his new book, The Gatekeepers: Inside the Admissions Process of a Premier College (Viking). Steinberg talks with TIME about the dos and don'ts of getting kids into the school of their choice...