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...Crimson’s four remaining opponents have a combined ECAC record of 27-36-9, which bodes well for Harvard’s ability to jockey for playoff positioning...
...face of few options, the sad trade continues. Every six months or so, according to Karachi airport immigration officer Haji Abdul Razzak, the broken and twisted body of a child jockey arrives back from the Gulf. Haji can't act without a complaint from a relative, and the $25,000 that accompanies a corpse buys many a family's silence. "They take the money and bury their child," says the official. Child smuggler Mohammed Aslam, 26, who was arrested in Karachi last spring, puts it this way: "We get money, the parents get money, the children get money. When everybody...
...MUSIC Berlin didn't always anticipate the musical fashion of the time. Often he imitated it. As a glance at "The Complete Lyrics of Irving Berlin" reveals, he wrote a zillion rag tunes ("That Mysterious Rag," "Ragtime Violin!", "Ragtime Mockingbird," "Ragtime Jockey Man," "Ragtime Soldier Man," "That International Rag") before and after "Alexander." He based whole songs on other people's airs ("That Mesmerizing Mendelsohn Tune," from Mendelsohn's "Spring Song"). He'd drop a snatch of a public-domain song in one of his (the bugle call and "Swanee River" in "Alexander's Ragtime Band"; "There's No Place...
...SEABISCUIT Why are there so few good biographies of horses? Well, never mind, here's one. The main character was an improbable racing champion: undersized, injury prone and ridden by a one-eyed jockey. Yet Seabiscuit captured America's heart, which pounded harder when he faced War Admiral in a showdown in 1938. Seabiscuit won, and Laura Hillenbrand does too with her deft blending of racing lore and social history...
Seabiscuit Why are there so few good biographies of horses? Well, never mind, here's one. The main character was an improbable racing champion: undersized, injury prone and ridden by a one-eyed jockey. Yet Seabiscuit captured America's heart, which pounded harder when he faced War Admiral in a showdown in 1938. Seabiscuit won, and Laura Hillenbrand does too with her deft blending of racing lore and social history...