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...VINCI CODE DAN BROWN Centuries ago, Christianity's darkest secrets were hidden--for their safety and ours--in a maze of riddles and paintings and secret societies and murders. Or at least that's what happened in Brown's best-selling novel. Either way the secrets are out now, and if they weren't worth $24.95 to you in hardcover, you can get them and the absorbing tale of Harvard "symbologist" (sorry, but there's no such thing) Robert Langdon and minxy sleuthette Sophie Neveu for cheap...
...DIED. DAN CURTIS, 78, TV producer; in Los Angeles. In the early 1960s, Curtis pitched a campy soap set on a desolate Maine estate and centered on a vampire and other gothic creatures. It became the cult hit Dark Shadows, which ran on ABC from 1966 to '71. Later he produced and directed two of the best-rated mini-series in history: The Winds of War and its sequel, War and Remembrance--starring Robert Mitchum, above with Curtis--for which he won an Emmy...
...last game for Hafner and classmates Tom Walsh, Charlie Johnson, Dan Murphy, and John Daigneau. Unlike the ECAC title weekend, during which Harvard dominated Dartmouth and Cornell with tranquil efficiency, coach Ted Donato ’91 said his team was “outplayed pretty much for the entire game, from top to bottom” by Maine...
...victory. “It was good to see him, a freshman, keep fighting after the match was decided,” Chiu said. SAN DIEGO STATE 4, HARVARD 2 The threat of rain meant that singles competition was held first Tuesday in San Diego. Only sophomore No. 5 Dan Nguyen and No. 6 Ermakov took their matches, and then the rain itself forced the cancellation of the doubles point, as the Aztecs had already guaranteed the win. SAN DIEGO 4, HARVARD 3 The No. 36 Toreros just edged out the Crimson Monday in San Diego. Despite an energetic start...
...innings. Thirty years later, Bob Wickman shared the lead with 45 saves, pitching just 62 innings. That's half the work, double the reward. But it's a stretch to say that today's chiseled, athletic players are inferior to yesterday's stars. "Laughable," says Miami Herald sports columnist Dan Le Batard, 37. "What, anywhere in society, was better 25 years ago? You're using better training methods and previous education. And there's a worldwide talent pool...