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...starters, this is an old story. Indications that a touch of the grape may do the heart some good go back at least 30 years, although each new shot of positive evidence still gets lots of attention. Two weeks ago, a big study in the New England Journal of Medicine showed that a particular pattern of drinking--rather than the absolute amount or the type of alcohol consumed--seems to have the best health effects. The investigators concluded that men who consistently drink a small amount of beer, wine or spirits three or more days a week suffer fewer heart...
...impossibly far removed. India requires first the basics of life and then transparency and accountability in local and national government. As Perry writes, it will take generations before India's becoming a nuclear power has any relevance for what the ordinary Indian calls the real world. Iona Sharma Formby, England...
...DIED. JOHN MCGAHERN, 71, Irish novelist whose early assaults on Ireland's religious and sexual hypocrisy were long shunned at home; in Dublin. After his 1965 novel The Dark was banned and he was forced out of his teaching job, McGahern moved abroad, living in England, France and the U.S. It was only after he resettled in his native Leitrim in the early 1970s that Ireland began to cherish his work, recognizing itself in his quiet portraits of a country riven by the pressures of the modern world...
After playing six games in Utah, the Harvard softball team returned to New England on Saturday to round up its spring break road trip. The Crimson split the doubleheader against Quinnipiac at Bobcat Field in Hamden, Conn., with the Bobcats taking the first game 5-3 and Harvard coming back to win the second by a 3-1 margin. The games brought the Crimson to 10-11 during the season...
...Texas. Their meetings are in resorts that they have chosen-not what I have chosen. My trips are all for legitimate reason and I was very much involved in advancing the conservative agenda overseas-whether it's working against Christian persecution in China or advancing the conservative cause in England with Margaret Thatcher or pushing freedom and democracy in Moscow or getting persecuted Jews out of the Soviet Union, or fighting Communists and socialists in Central America. When you go to those places, you are with the people that you're meeting with. You're staying in the hotels that...