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Here, it's considered a rough day if the temperature drops below ten degrees. When it's been snowing for a while--and rarely does a fortnight go by without snow--the conditions are terrific. Just be sure to avoid getting buried in the loose powder...
...only rosy part of the picture is that Harvard has suffered little in the Ivy League race. After tying Cornell a week ago, the Crimson is in second place in the Ivies, behind undefeated, untied Dartmouth. The Big Green arrive in Cambridge for a Halloween faceoff in a fortnight...
...begin his climb from the electoral cellar, George Bush needed a fortnight of seamless good fortune: a small triumph of diplomacy with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, James Baker's return to political service, then a smooth glide to Houston for joyous coronation by a united Republican Party. Maybe the convention week will go that way. But in the first half of the Republican fortnight, the President seemed unable to awake from what is turning out to be a nightmarish fight for re-election...
They're baa-ack. After a vacation for NBC's Olympic fortnight, Jay Leno returns to The Tonight Show to find his competition with late-night rival Arsenio Hall fiercer than any jock grudge match. Consider the events. The javelin backstab. The 100-m bad-mouth. Synchronized sniping. Follyball. And -- given Leno's 33% ratings advantage over Hall -- the uneven parallel talk shows. Who needs Barcelona? These are the games of summer...
...coverage's quality. (The judging from here: a respectable bronze medal for Bob Costas' cool authority in the anchor booth and those welcome stretches of silence from the gymnastics commentators during crucial routines.) The issue is quantity. NBC scheduled a typically excessive 161 hours of coverage over the Olympics fortnight. In addition, the network put together an elaborate pay-per-view package: three additional channels of events, running 24 hours a day (12 of them live). Cost: a hefty $125 for the 15-day package...