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...currently live to 100, will do so after reading his tome. But using Georgakas' "longevity agenda," perhaps someday someone will challenge the world's all-time documented record of 113 years and 214 days, set by one Delina "Grandma" Filkins (1815-1928). As Georgakas rightly stresses, such an individual feat may be possible only when people mobilize to oppose the hazards to healthy life that self-interested Big Industry and self-serving Big Government pose today...
...which makes the Harvard Summer Theatre Ensemble's production a very impressive feat. This performance, the ensemble's first, manages to take Shakespeare's improbable jumble and confront the maze of bleak themes. Yet it still maintains the delicate balance between humor and pathos which Shakespeare himself did not seem to have merged terribly well into the playwrighting...
...final note on McEnroe's accomplishments at Wimbledon this year: while no one was watching, he and Peter Fleming quietly took the doubles crown on Friday, a feat that testifies to the New Yorker's all-around mastery of the sport...
...Fleur's just completed novel in order to use its plot as a blueprint for manipulating the destinies of his hapless sect, Spark performs her characteristic sleight of hand. Her brisk little comedy turns out to hinge on mysteries of good and evil, reality and imagination. The feat may be done no better here than in half a dozen of her earlier novels, but it is quite enough to bear out Fleur's assertion that "everything happens to an artist: time is always redeemed, nothing is lost and wonders never cease...
...furiously toward his skiff. When the furry creature got to within a hare's breadth of the craft, Carter took oar in hand and began flailing frantically to chase it away-or maybe even to split a hare. Aides scoffed when Jimmy first regaled them with his rabbit feat, until they learned that a White House photographer had recorded the incident. No doubt about it. The hare-rowing tail was fur real...