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Harvard travels this Saturday to Bryant College to face Brown, Rice, Drake, and Northeastern...
...disguise the soft hearts beneath their flamboyant T shirts. When an East German family gets stranded on the road in Yugoslavia, it is hauled back home gratis. As the journey concludes, a trucker wistfully remarks, "I was born in the wrong century. I should have sailed with Sir Francis Drake." Perhaps he should have, with Hutchison along to take notes. The world would then know a lot more today about what went on in the 1500s at the borders, across the seas and belowdecks...
...Washington, Theater Director Gillian Drake, who four years ago founded Acting for Lawyers, loosens up buttoned-down barristers by having them mime such natural events as falling rain and falling leaves. Says Drake: "Lawyers are taught by their training to doubt. I teach them that what they have to do -- and this is what actors do -- is abandon doubt and jump right in." The practice seems to work. Washington Attorney Robert Trout, who has taken a couple of Drake's classes, says they have helped him "find the human story in whatever is the subject matter of the lawsuit...
...rise as a world power. This year Britons are saluting the victory with pageants, bonfires and banquets. Trouble is, the occasion has also spawned scholarly works and an exhibit at the National Maritime Museum that debunk myths about the English victory. Among them: that the genius of Sir Francis Drake was almost solely responsible for Spain's defeat. These accounts argue that stormy weather contributed powerfully to the armada's defeat...
This has hardly amused British patriots. Lectured the Times of London: "National anniversary festivities should properly be concerned with projecting myths, not recording facts." In Sir Francis' hometown of Plymouth, City Councilor Reg Scott fumed, "It's outrageous of them to play down Drake's role. I was raised to think of this as a great victory...