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While the doctors have been unable to place "a hard and fast timetable" on McNabb's recovery schedule, according to Coach Gordon Graham, McNabb will certainly miss the opening round of one of the fall's biggest team tournaments, the ITCA regional qualifier...

Author: By Dan Jacobowitz, | Title: Knee Cap Injury Sidelines McNabb | 9/27/1991 | See Source »

...letter to Leverett residents posted September 20, Senior Tutor Gordon C. Harvey called the theft of the drawing "an embarrassment to us all" and urged anyone with information about the artwork's disappearance to contact his office...

Author: By Stephen E. Frank, | Title: Leverett Artwork Disappears | 9/25/1991 | See Source »

Balick walks tropical forests with shamans in Latin America as part of a study, sponsored by the National Cancer Institute, designed to uncover plants useful in the treatment of AIDS and cancer. The 5,000 plants collected so far, says the NCI's Gordon Cragg, have yielded some promising chemicals. If any of them turn out to be useful as medicines, the country from which the plant came would get a cut of the profits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lost Tribes, Lost Knowledge | 9/23/1991 | See Source »

...vernacular world. The question pondered in THE MYSTERIES, a multimedia enchantment at Harvard's American Repertory Theater, is whether vernacular life itself -- the life of mating, domestic squabbles and old age -- can constitute a sort of art. At times the idea is posed literally, as when writer-director David Gordon places an ornate frame around actors engaged in a mock wedding. At other times the "mysteries" of creation are interspersed with the mysteries of, say, detective stories. The text is often witty, if declamatory, but the real joys of the piece are acoustic and visual. Philip Glass has contributed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Framed, but Is It Art? | 9/23/1991 | See Source »

...hillarious incarnation of capitalist evil, a man so consumed with avarice that he programs his computer to tell him daily which shares "are the fairest of them all." Willis, who appeared in the original Off-Broadway production, gives Garfinkle an emotional presence to match his considerable bulk. Unlike Gordon Gekko, the smoothly detatched anti-hero of Oliver Stone's Wall Street, Garfinkle physically revels in the obscene amounts of money he is making. He pumps his arm, chews gum ferociously and hurls one-liners across the stage...

Author: By Adam E. Pachter, | Title: Other People's Money: Tales of the Street | 9/20/1991 | See Source »

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