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Among the other Harvard winners were Ric Rojas, who took third in the two mile; Jim Kleiger, third in the pole vault; Deway Hickman, third in the hurdies and Ballee Reed, fifth in the dash...
...toward his wife, and at the same time capable of a crippling self-doubt. Little of this is apparent in Mr. Sweeney's portrayal. Ms. Weeks' direction at times is good--the scenes with the Valet at the very beginning of the play, for example, are played with a dash of puckish cynicism, and work well. But the production throughout is marred with sloppy blocking. Meaningless turns and faltering steps abound; the scene at the end of the play when the characters finally realize the permanence of their condition fails because of weak direction...
Harvard will be looking for victories in the dash, with Dewey Hickman, the pole vault with sophomore Jim Kleiger, and the broad-jump with Leon Sharpe...
Coach Bill McCurdy said last night that several factors could throw the meet one way or the other. Both the hurdles and the dash will be run over 50 yards instead of the customary 60. This will give the advantage to the quick starter, and it's not clear which side will benefit from the change...
Return of Dash. What's wrong? Bureaucratic bottlenecks account for some of the trouble; officials of Nigeria's twelve states claim they have yet to see development money supposedly appropriated by the federal government. Another factor is massive corruption-known as "dash"-which once again is a fact of Nigerian life. "When we ask what's happened to our money," says one state development official, "Lagos tells us it's on the way-that it's been put into the 'development pipeline.' But it never comes out. Either the pipeline is blocked...