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...Harvard sophomore point guard showed a killer instinct in the Crimson’s last two victories, connecting on a number of late-game shots to help lift his team to improbable road wins over Vermont (UVM) and Central Connecticut State University (CCSU). Housman averaged 20.5 points, four rebounds and three assists to go along with four three-pointers in the two contests, but it was his timely scoring and penetration that helped Harvard boost its road record...
...collection by Heaney, perhaps the world's greatest living poet, is an event. And this one is a killer - literally. District and Circle (the title suggests the London Underground and, surely, its 2005 terror bombings) throbs with anxiety, foreboding and half-suppressed violence. Heaney's language is a symphony of sounds, surprises and look-'em-up words, like his barber's "cold smooth creeping steel and snicking scissors." You'll want to sing his lines out loud - until you realize how deadly serious the post-9/11 Heaney can be. "Anything can happen," he warns, "the tallest towers/ Be overturned...
Justice is murder for Dexter Morgan (Michael C. Hall), a part-time sleuth and--oh, yeah--serial killer who learned young to put his deadly urges to productive use by slaughtering only bad guys. Hall's composed, self-aware performance is flat-out stunning, and so is the treatment of this psychoprocedural's central idea: Is it a man's thoughts or his actions that make him good or evil...
...fear massive terrorism plots, killer strains of bacteria in our food and lurking predators, but we seldom think of heart disease when we order fries. Thrill-seeking readers appreciated our analysis of the threats we face every day, which--surprise!--don't include a bungee jump or deadly snakes...
...should hopefully lead us to the one aspect the communists got right: atheism. C.P. Belliappa Coorg, India Mehmet Ali Agca, a Turkish citizen, made an assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II in 1981. Two-and-a-half years after the attack, the Pope personally favored the would-be killer. Benedict XVI deserves to be welcomed in Turkey with respect and dignity. This kind of tolerance could signify a fundamental step toward peace and mutual understanding between Islam and Christianity. Daniel C. Ammann Zurich, Switzerland The Challenge to Islam Re Father Richard Neuhaus' viewpoint [Nov. 27], in which he explained...