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...unpleasant saga of two formerly Harvard-affiliated doctors convicted in 1981 along with a third colleague of gang-raping a nurse may finally drop out of the headlines. The former Harvard doctors--Arif Hussain and Eugene Sherry--learned in July that their six-month sentences had been upheld, as had an identical punishment for fellow defendant Alan Lefkowitz...
...loneliness among college freshmen, cites one last freshman difficulty unique to students at exclusive private colleges like Harvard. "At Harvard," Peplau says, "most people are leaving home to go to school. Here at UCLA, a great many students live in the area and come right in with their whole gang from high school. There's no social transition for them...
...wearing headphones clamped over both ears. She looked like . . . something intelligent but brutal from science fiction." Peck, 48, an American who attended Oxford, echoes his colleagues in teen realism when he says, "We rarely celebrate the captains of athletic teams; the most popular girl in school or the gang leader. We write for and about people who are gathering strength, solvers of problems...
...manager of the season. Off with their heads! But this manically impulsive policy toward personnel, including pogroms of player trading, has exacted a psychic cost. It has tended to reduce what could be the finest team in baseball (once called "the best team that money can buy") to a gang of anxious neurotics who wonder what each night's line-up card will look like. They speculate who the next target of George's wrathful attention will be. Once it was Reggie Jackson. Now Tommy John has fallen from grace. Wistful, disgusted, the players sit in the locker...
...athletes tend to sponsor 10 kilometer runs and dorm parties, but intimate cookouts give the less physically fit a chance to join in the fun. As the fire smolders and the bugs start biting, the whole gang sits around and chews the tat, until the trend-setters leave to change for the evening...