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...Penn loss at home against Dartmouth Saturday and two Crimson victories in its remaining Ivy games--at Brown Saturday and at Yale a week later--would put the stickwomen into a first-place tie with Penn and set the stage for a playoff so improbable that Harvard dare not dream about...
Since the imposition of Jim MacCrow at the Science Center, these former Mac Users are now branded "Mac Abusers" if they dare venture into the segregated computer room. Unable to return to pre-modern methods of production, and without the capital to purchase the contemporary means for themselves, they are forced to lead a marginal existence in the Computer Age. Living off the benificence of Mac-owning friends and acquaintences, these pathetic souls never know where their next slot of computer-time will come from. Some have even been driven to the personals columns of local newspapers. "Single, male, good...
...important battles of Family and Friends are fought over love, and in this arena Brookner is shrewd enough to know that the Geneva convention does not apply. "The rules are really crude," she said in a recent issue of the trade magazine Publishers Weekly. "The rules are: Who dares, wins. This is bad news for people who don't dare and who see others win. That's the central problem, I think. I think it's the matter nobody gets completely right." Not in life, perhaps; but this art historian who dared write novels has found the solution in literature...
Consolidated Foods is a sober, respectable name for a consumer-products conglomerate, but none dare call it mouthwatering. Accordingly, executives of the Chicago-based company (1984 sales: $7 billion) decided to rename the firm Sara Lee, after its familiar frozen cakes, breads and pies...
...getting back to rock stars, we all know that Jimi Hendrix is the greatest guitarist who ever lived (and died), that Janis Joplin cornered the market on blues, and we dare not challenge their legends. Weren't we all taught not to speak badly of the dead, since they're not around to defend themselves? Instead, we let their sancrosant memories be grappled with and protected by biographers, former lovers and marketing geniuses of all types. And the faces of the long gone past gain the mystique of the unknown--what if they had lived on? --and the privilege...