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David L. Evans is associate director of Harvard College admissions, assistant dean of freshmen, and academic tutor of Dudley House. He is black, and was born in Wabash, Ark., in the midst of the Depression and Jim Crow. His father, a sharecropper, died when David was 10 years old. His mother, a domestic, died when he was 16. Evans is successful because he has pushed, elbowed, and kept a stiff upper lip--but he has retained his humanity. Against all dictates of probability, he has been concerned enough to turn around and help others to push aside their own barricades...
...last time I went around making predictions, I almost ended up looking for recipes for crow. I had proclaimed that the Oakland Athletics were going to take the Series over the Mets in six. Going into the sixth game, the Mets were leading, three games to two, and I was sweating blood...
Luckily, the A s pulled the title out in seven in spite of the tenacious Mets and the pugnacious Charlie Finley, and I did not have to eat crow or hear from a hundred New Yorkers how they knew the Mets would...
...doesn't really matter which team wins the Kansas-Marquette game since the national championship will be decided on Saturday in the pines of North Carolina in the Bruins-Wolfpack match. Now I heard this real good recipe in which you take a deep frier and a plucked crow...
Deli Prayers. In an engaging segment called "Crow River Christmas," the camera records the life of a Lutheran congregation, mostly Swedish American, in a small Minnesota farming community. There is a Norman Rockwell family dinner, with the pastor leading a round of Swedish songs, and a young boy walking through the snowy woods, talking about his faith as if it were the most natural thing in the world. "What would you do without Jesus?" he asks. "How would you get along...