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...bitter fantasies of art. We see a frightening jumble of hungry, half-naked street kids, voracious rats, a huge cat-faced moon. Two white urchins discover a brown boy barely old enough to walk. Jingly verse that recalls The Threepenny Opera teeters on murder: "Come says Jack let's knock him on the head, No says Guy let's buy him some bread." The happy ending is cold comfort: a ruck of bony children trying to sleep in a shantytown. This is brilliant and powerful stuff, but it is hard to imagine reading it to a child. Some adults...
...Allen Sinai, chief economist at the investment firm of Lehman Brothers. In everyday language, the recovery is getting to the point where people can feel it in their wallets. And this time it might not fizzle out the way an end-of-1992 surge did. It might -- cross fingers, knock on wood -- continue at a steady pace through next year or beyond...
...Teams have been gunning at us, trying to knock Harvard off its high ranking [currently number 10 in the nation]," senior defender Derek Maguire says. "We have to play tight defense and rush...
...team at the Munich Games of 1972. He is likely the only person on the planet who initially began boxing because he had broken his nose playing both football and baseball and was looking for a less damaging alternative. Five years ago, Tommy became the only person ever to knock in two holes-in-one in the same round of golf at Winchester Country Club. Today, one day before his 85th birthday, Governor William F. Weld '66 will honor Tommy at the Statehouse for eighteen years of service on the Massachusetts State Boxing Commission...
...closely regulates bouts. And while sparring can get intense, it never gets out of hand. Brann notes that the club does not train its members "to be aggressive and hurt people." This view is echoed by Codrington, who says that "the whole concept of boxing as a bloody, knock 'em down sport goes away when you first try to throw a good punch...