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...return of Stanley Cup hero Mark Messier to Madison Square Garden provided an interesting subtext. Messier was loudly cheered by the New York fans, many of whom wore Rangers jerseys with his name on them...
...47th annual tournament for Boston collegiate hockey bragging rights, history appeared to repeat itself against Northeastern (9-13-3, 4-10-2 Hockey East) with another very late goal by a Crimson defenseman to tie the score. Unlike last year's opening game, however, the opposition provided the ultimate hero in freshman forward Brian Cummings, who scored the game-winner in a 4-3 Northeastern victory over Harvard (8-10-1, 3-9-1 ECAC...
Lila Mae Watson, Whitehead's hero, is an aging black elevator inspector in an unnamed eastern metropolis that resembles a Kafkaesque New York City. The bureaucracy of the elevator workers dominates the city government. That bureaucracy is divided between two main factions that vie with each other for political influence: the so-called Empiricists, a dry, hard-headed bunch who do their jobs with scientific precision; and the Intuitionists like Watson, who work by instinct, by feel. James Fulton, the Intuitionists' patron saint, is a deceased pioneer of "verticality" whose books contain cryptic, Masonic meditations that seem to address...
...worried not at all that the scandal has engulfed the President and Congress for a full year. The distraction, he says, "may keep them from doing something that makes it all worse" for places like Emporia. As a boy during World War II, he had three heroes: Roy Rogers, Gene Autry and President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Especially Roosevelt. "People generally thought this one man was the difference between winning and losing that war," the mayor says. It wasn't until later that they learned he couldn't walk. And yet, Davis says, "I remember him, because my mother cried when...
...hanging any pictures of your Men of the Year in my kindergarten classroom. Shame on you! How could you relegate baseball's Mark McGwire to the (newly invented?) category of Hero of the Year? McGwire taught us all a lesson in sportsmanship and humility. ANNE M. HAGGERTY Silver Spring...