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Under this plan for university-wide competition. The Game would cease to be the focal point of Yale-Harvard weekend. Instead, a contest between the presidents of the universities would become the center of attention. To make the presidential joust as fair as possible, each top official would be allowed to select the event of his choice. A. Bartlett Giamatti of Yale would most likely choose a debate on the ethical responsibilities of the university in society. Derek Bok of Harvard would probably choose to take on Giamatti in a one-on-one basketball game...
...green and lush as the rolling hills of Ireland, where the film was shot. Nigel Terry (Arthur) is no Sean Connery, the parfit gentil knight of Robin and Marian, but he passes persuasively from innocence to kingship to the realization that immortality can be won only through a fatal joust with his son and slayer. Cherie Lunghi too closely resembles a Covent Garden flower child to bring Guenevere to mature life, but her callow modernity wreathes Excalibur in later ideals of post-courtly love. Nicholas Clay makes an athletic Lancelot: he could be a dashing soldier of fortune...
Only twice in the television age, 1960 and 1976, have presidential candidates formally debated, and it is an article of political faith that in both those hairline contests the encounters may well have decided the election. With all three candidates this year having long since agreed to joust, presumably a few aides should by now, with Nov. 4 only nine weeks away, have settled the details for the great TV debates of 1980. Quite the contrary. They are having surprising difficulties in getting the show on the road...
...month stint as a guest commentator on NBC'S Today show, and now is said to be a leading contender to replace Shana Alexander as half of the "Point-Counterpoint" team on CBS's 60 Minutes. If she does, she insists, it won't be to joust with Conservative Columnist James Kilpatrick, as Alexander did. "Debate polarizes, and everything I've tried to do is the opposite-to find the connections, not the differences," says Goodman. "Besides, debate is black and white. I'm much more interested in gray...
High atop the House of Kirkland, surrounded by all the comforts of a modern-day baronet (water bed, stand up bar, powerful stereo) lives the man who will carry the lance in Saturday's joust against Yale. Even if the foe unseats him, his name will still resound like that of a king: Judson Burke St. John...