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...this weekend's victories over Princeton and Navy, the Harvard men's team discovered a formula for success--over- coming adversity. Harvard 4 Princeton 3 Harvard 7 Navy...
...first story in the collection, "Little Creatures," is one of several road trip stories. Road trips are universally acknowledged to be a tricky subject, if only by virtue of their simple formula. It's far too easy to write a boring, pretentious road trip story. Coupland's road stories aren't particularly pretentious. But, like much of the writing of his generation, they fail to go anywhere, literally or figuratively...
...INFANT-FORMULA MAKERS Fine print in G.O.P. block-grant proposal could mean $1 billion feeding...
After Rutgers took the hard-fought third set, Harvard once again shocked the volleyball cognoscenti by taking a bid lead against the Scarlet Knights in set four. But Rutgers, in a perversion of the classic no State '83 underdog formula, rallied back. Again, though, the Crimson refused to be the Boston Red Sox, and held on to win the set, 15-13, and even the match...
...what's a bit of hair loss and death, if they bring you apparently eternal commercial success and an entry in the Guiness Book of World Records for the longest running non-musical in American theater history? Sounds remarkable, implausible even. Yet somehow, Shear Madness' formula works...