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...finger to channel-changer flip through nearly 100 channels is as American as apple pie. Cable Television is a staple in nearly every household and college dorm room in America. Why should the Harvard houses be the exception? Every Harvard resident should be able to watch Ab and Magnus hoist compact cars over their heads or buy a limited edition Joan Rivers hairpin on the Home Shopping Network. Fiddling with the antenna for five channels went out of style with the rotary phone and leaded gasoline...
...Trouble (Simon & Schuster; 875 pages; $32.50), by the late J. Anthony Lukas, strives to do more than just re-create the trial; it tries to hoist a whole world onto its shoulders--people, landscapes, buildings, ideas and all. Lukas, who won the Pulitzer Prize for Common Ground, his study of school desegregation in Boston, committed suicide last spring, reportedly in despair over the new book. He was a devastating critic of his own work, and Big Trouble shows the strains of this perfectionism. Branching off from the story of the trial and the theme of American class struggle are scores...
...wooden motor launch with a short mast and a steadying sail. Coomer buys the boat for a reasonable price, which is much like adopting, for a reasonable price, a child who must shortly be sent to Princeton. He names it Yonder (that's the easy part), learns to hoist anchor, percolate about the harbor, and dock again. Also to sail a bit, and what to do when the diesel fails: call for a tow, then call the diesel wizard, then deploy checkbook. After several seasons of costly maintenance, Coomer's master shipwright assumes a long face, reports rot and says...
...didn't win the competition, and she was very upset with herself. My husband said to her, 'You don't have to do this anymore.' She looked up and said, 'But I want to do it.'" Before Lisa Iverson could even walk, she would crawl onto the hearth and hoist herself up on the fireplace in their Tehechapi, California, home and perform--and she would get angry when her audience's attention wandered. In her early pageants, judges couldn't get her off the stage. Lisa is now a member of the Screen Actor's Guild...
...featured on the FBI's 10-most-wanted list. (He is the first international drug dealer ever to make that dishonor roll.) When he realized where he was headed, Garcia Abrego lost his composure. At the Mexico City airport, agents had to drag him from the car and hoist him up the steps to the plane. On board, he looked at the eight agents escorting him to Houston and told them, "You are all dead...