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Rose is, in a sense, our tragic hero. He was the powerful Achilles whose heel was interceptions and whose death was in the greatest of wars--The Game...
...favorite targets tomorrow will undoubtedly be the hero--or villain, depending on your allegiance--of last year's Game, senior wide receiver Eric Johnson. Last year, Johnson victimized the secondary in the second half of The Game to help Yale to a share of the Ivy title. This year, playing in his last game, Johnson will look to spark his team to its third straight win over the Crimson. He currently leads the team with 73 receptions and has caught 12 of Lee's 17 touchdown throws...
...morning after the game, in one of the most extraordinary confessionals ever recorded, Harvard's improbable hero Frank Champi confided that the night before he had a dreamlike premonition of what would happen the next day. For all the eeriness and surrounds both that Harvard-Yale football matchup and this Harvard-Yale presidential contest, perhaps, just perhaps, we can take some measure of comfort in knowing that there is a larger, guiding force that will see us through this contest--hopefully with the same sense of calm that Champi exhibited 32 years...
...have always wanted to know what Christina Aguilera's kind of Christmas would be like, now you know. It's filled with glitter, bass and pop anthems like "Xtina's Xmas." But like her musical (and apparently stylistic) hero, Mariah Carey, Christina does have some vocal chops. They are displayed prominently in "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" and "Merry Christmas, Baby," two soulful ballads, which are all that a Christmas album can really offer anyway. However, her other results are mixed. Whereas the main track "Christmas Time," is upbeat and catchy (it's by the same team that brought...
Simple. He could hit and throw and run with a gliding grace, and when he could no longer do those things he...well, he looked great in a suit. But as Richard Ben Cramer establishes in his absolutely persuasive DiMaggio: The Hero's Life (Simon & Schuster; 546 pages; $28), Joe D. had a secret. He knew the power of silence. The less he gave, standing remote and noble and regally aloof, the more the world took it as evidence of dignity...