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Parcells is a football demigod. He is the one of the last of those coaching dinosaur: the disciplinarian. He doesn't coddle the players (like a recently fired Boston coach did) and he doesn't protect them from the media cutthroats. He doesn't heap praise on them or soothe their egos. He screams. And, he does it with artery-popping intensity...
...somewhat dented, that there are laws preventing them from being excluded. The Citadel is, without doubt, one of Southern education's more idiosyncratic institutions. Founded in 1842 (it boasts that its cadets fired the first shots of the Civil War: at a Union ship), the college is a proud dinosaur of the Old South, notable today for two things. One is its alumni network, which includes at least one South Carolina Senator, one former Governor and countless other sons of Dixie whose extraordinary mutual loyalty gives them enormous local clout. The other is its abysmal treatment of freshmen, or "knobs...
Barney is being sued. A music publisher claims she owns rights to the Purple One's theme song, I Love You. The dinosaur's owners deny it. Though omitted from a recent NBC special, the ditty will continue to be sung on Barney's daily shows, pending a September court date...
Macdonald, who died in 1982 at age 76, has now been accorded a solid if not definitive biography. A Rebel in Defense of Tradition (BasicBooks; 590 pages; $30) by Michael Wreszin is the kind of academic "lumbering dinosaur" -- the author's modest self-appraisal -- that might have sent its subject to his typewriter harrumphing with dismay. Wreszin dutifully portrays the man and his times but too often paraphrases rather than quotes directly from a writer whose style was the essence of jaunt and spark. (In fairness, Wreszin does have the good sense to cite Macdonald's lead...
...animals steal the show. Roommates Bonnie A. Pelly '96 and Bethany M. Lemann '96 came to the museum for a Biological Sciences 2 lab, and returned to check out the rest of the museum. "I liked the sperm whale's pelvic bones and the big dinosaur fossil. I love evolution. I love dolphins. I love primates," gushed Lemann...