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...prepare for our meeting, it strikes me that "Boxing at Harvard" is itself a curious idea, and I'm eager to learn where the two American institutions meet up. So I show up at the MAC's third-floor Rec. Room early for my Friday afternoon appointment, just as the club's introductory meeting is letting out and a practice is starting up. Rawson, a squat, bald man is standing in a corner, instructing one of his boxers. Wearing a collared shirt and ancient plaid pants, he seems to have forgotten how men his age are supposed...
...women were united by an impulse toward charity, and charity is a tricky way to live. A nun I know in Brooklyn, Sister Mary Paul, who has worked with the down-and-nearly-out all her life, once told me, "People in the helping professions are curious. I think they may feel something is missing in their lives. There can be a lot of ego, a lot of vicarious fulfillment. One wants to see oneself as a good and giving person. There is nothing wrong in that, but it can't be the only goal. The ultimate goal must...
...curious thing had been happening to Diana lately, or rather the newsprint Diana that the world felt it owned. You started to believe her. Instead of adoring Diana, or pitying Diana, or disdaining Diana, you could be happy for her. She was in love with Dodi, happy, unnatural no longer. She was running from the cameras at full speed. You believed her when she said that "any sane person would have left (England) long ago. But I cannot. I have my sons...
DIED. CONLON NANCARROW, 84, eccentric and enigmatic American-born composer; in Mexico City. One of the most curious characters in modern music, he devoted his life to composing almost exclusively for the player piano. He fought with the Abraham Lincoln Brigade against fascist Spain in 1937. His political views led the State Department to refuse to renew his passport in 1940. He moved to Mexico, where he became a citizen...
...State Department's bureau of diplomatic security has turned to a curious spokesman in its attempt to stop worldwide terrorism. Besides placing macabre, slasher-movie-style newspaper ads in the International Herald Tribune offering up to $2 million for information about assaults on American citizens abroad, the State Department has enlisted none other than bad-boy actor CHARLIE SHEEN to lend encouragement in a series of public-service ads at its www.heroes.net Website. "Are you the next hero?" asks Sheen, whose unheroic scrapes with the law have included serving as a prosecution witness in the HEIDI FLEISS tax-evasion case...