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Entering Saturday's regular season finale, the big, bad streetfighting Harvard men's soccer team had, on the strength of one of its finest seasons in recent memory, established for itself a reputation as one of the most powerful squads in New England...
...this season the Quincy House resident has made 30 tackles and recorded four sacks. More importantly, the Senior Class Marshall's finest games have come when Harvard has needed it most...
...fuss over the mail-order MiGs will not go down in the history books as one of the Reagan Administration's finest hours. The various anonymous Administration sources who were supplying the breathless warnings of Nicaraguan misdeeds sounded less like belligerent hawks than professional Chicken Littles, proclaiming the doom of MiG 21's within range of America's banana supplies. The leaking hysteria became a flood that engulfed even the normally cool-headed Sen. Paul E. Tsongas (D-Mass.), who warned that if the MiG's were aboard the Soviet freighters, American military action would be necessary...
...Adventure of a Photographer", a maniacal tale of two-dimensional artistic obsession, is one of the finest short stories Calvino has written, certainly superior to Julio Cortazar's celebrated photo story "Blow-Up." In the latter, a photographer tries to piece together the reality behind a photograph, but Calvino's protagonist goes one better, trying to discover the reality to photograph. The coldest, funniest, and only perfect story in this volume, "Photographer" is fast climbing on my Hot 100 of the Twentieth Century...
Considered by many one of the finest teams in Harvard field hockey history, the Crimson has tumbled to 5-9 overall and to next to last place in the Ivy League this season. Only Yale at 2:30 p.m. today on Soliders Field remains on the 1984 schedule...