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Harvard and Penn were head-and-shoulders above the rest of the league. Each polled for almost 30 points more than the nearest runners up, even in a season in which third-place Brown could be a third contender in the race for Ivy supremacy. Harvard and Penn have held...
What events? Laxalt says only that friends around the country have been urging him to make the race. But many politicians have friends who say such things, and Laxalt is too savvy to fall for sycophancy. Although he does not say so publicly, Laxalt seems increasingly persuaded that Vice President...
At the moment, Laxalt is not exactly a high-profile contender. But what is appealing about Laxalt to the Republican faithful is his closeness to Reagan, both personally and politically. With his Western roots, his no-frills manner and his detached, easygoing style, Laxalt offers enough intimations of a Reagan...
One slick new cable service, TelShop, a joint venture of Financial News Network and Comp-U-Card International, expects to lure bigger spenders with such attractions as videocassette recorders, vacation packages and exercise bicycles. Another upscale contender, Shop Television Network, which will officially hit the airwaves next week, hopes to...
these works as some of his most meaningful, and has donated them to the National Museum in Bogotá. Those paintings also draw criticism, however. "Most people said it was glorifying violence," he says. In 1995, Colombia's murky mixture of politics and gangsterism claimed a new victim: Botero's...