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DIED. ANN CALVELLO, 76, fiery Roller Derby Queen and a reigning icon of the American sport cum spectacle since the 1940s; in Burlingame, Calif. Cast as a villain who relished boos from the crowd, she reached her zenith in the '60s as a star of San Francisco's famed Bay City Bombers. With purple, green and polka-dot hair, tattoos and a flair for elbow-throwing, the Meanest Mama on Skates endured 12 broken noses and numerous cracked ribs competing over seven decades...
...freshman at Swarthmore College, Miron was a French major on his way to law school. All it took for Miron to switch majors during sophomore year was an economics class that fulfilled a distribution requirement, and he graduated magna cum laude with a degree in economics...
...that I would criticize my classmates. This particular “Crazy Hakim”—as the film credits identify the crackpot Scheherazade-cum-shopkeeper figure I played—is wasting her time with poetry and European languages. Not exactly among those things President Bush has recently announced to be “critical” to national interests...
...Harvard in the spring of 1989, Yoo’s 128-page thesis—which earned him a summa cum laude distinction—comprised an analysis of the three presidents’ foreign policies, but did not advocate for any one of them. He characterized the diplomacy during the sixteen years that he reviewed as a vacillation between two poles: “re-asserting American leadership, or devolving responsibility for defending Europe to the Europeans...
This morally ambiguous world populated by the imperfect is resonant and real—and it is vintage Connelly. Bitter detectives, sympathetic thieves, and model citizens-cum-pedophiles pervade the former journalist’s other books, almost all of which have been bestsellers...