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Leading the way for the Quakers--who are currently tied with Princeton for first place in the Ivies--was junior center Geoff Owens. Owens, who at 6'11 is two inches taller than his Crimson counter-part, senior center Bill Ewing, had a terrific game, finishing the contest with 16 points on 5-of-7 shooting to go along with 12 rebounds (five on the offensive glass...
...Eliot search was the second of two house master searches conducted this year. In early November, popular professor Gregory P. Nagy announced that he would leave his Currier House post. A bit more lax than its Eliot House counter-part, the Currier search committee asked for student input at several house meetings. But it, too, tried to keep its actions under wraps. Representatives of both committees said they wanted to avoid embarrassing any candidates...
Director Laith Zawawi scraps the traditional Greek chorus and employs in its place the streamlined commentary of the Dark and Light Spirits. Henry as the Light Spirit and a Darth Vaderesque Christina Kiely as her darker counter-part are permanent fixtures to the play. When they don't have any lines they simply stand there spreading their good or bad karma. It's quite a New Age-like concept--one can almost feel all that cosmic energy being thrown about...
MOREOVER, as much as Bush's supporters may try to deny this, Quayle is no match for his Democratic counter-part, Lloyd Bentsen, in intelligence, leadership, experience or qualifications for the presidency. He is widely considered by congressional colleagues on both sides of the aisle as a lightweight, a nice guy with a pretty face but with virtually no substantive achievements in his 12 years in Congress. During a dinner for top Republican officials earlier this week, the main topic of conversation was who would be Bush's pick as a running mate. When Quayle's name was mentioned, many...
Initially under siege from the reactionary tennis establishment, critics accused the fledgling racquet, which boasts a 40-per-cent greater hitting area than its traditional counter-part, of being illegal, Political humorist, Art Buchwald, an avid tennis fan, recalls his personal "humiliation" and "suffering" when he first brandished it against Washington politicos. "I went through a terrible period... my opponents were screaming bloody murder, accusing me of cheating." While most of Washington officialdom are now converts, rumor has it that president Reagan doesn't play the game because he hasn't figured out where to hitch his horse...