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Share and care. Last year, Radcliffe President Linda S. Wilson adopted the annoying habit of dodging valid questions on the fate of Radcliffe. Consequently, students were kept in the dark during most of the discussions. This is unacceptable...
...which was rare enough for a professional athlete; rarer still, he spoke about it in public. In time he regained his confidence, his health and his unprecedented ability to hit home runs. When he finally had a 50-knock season, in 1996, he apparently decided to make it a habit. He repeated the feat in 1997, and now, in 1998, he has shredded it, performing prodigies unheard of in sport or in most other areas of human endeavor. Thirty-seven years ago, Maris surpassed Ruth's record by 1.6%; McGwire catapulted the same record forward by a nearly unfathomable...
...read with amazement Roger Rosenblatt's commentary "The Silent Friendships of Men" [ESSAY, Dec. 7], in which he praised men's habit of saying little to their pals. It conjured up an image of cavemen at a time when language was little more than a series of grunts. How dull the friendship Rosenblatt described must have been if he "cannot recollect a single idea exchanged." What emerges from his description is a sort of emotional paralysis. A relationship between two people, men or women, is only as good as the communication between them. MICHAEL SOUTHON Aragua, Venezuela
Video-game makers have been capitalizing on their popular characters since the arcade's heyday (Remember Pac-Man bed sheets?) but have never come close to the level of mass-market merchandising now a habit for movie studios like Disney. That may change. More and more, PC-game companies are peddling their properties outside the virtual realm. The result: toys like this creature from StarCraft, the year's top-selling CD-ROM game. And move over, Barbie: a Lara Croft doll debuts this month. Online Help for Movers...
...tend to overlook (in sizing him up) Gates' basic decency. He has repeatedly been offered a starring role in the circus freak show of American Celebrity, Julius Caesar being offered the Emperor's crown by clamorous sycophants. He has turned it down. He does not make a habit of going on TV to pontificate, free-associate or share his feelings. His wife and young child are largely invisible to the public, which represents a deliberate decision on the part...