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While Harvard does not like to lose, the Crimson feels it will be stronger than ever in the latter--and more important--part of the season...
There are two good ways to become famous in America. One is to possess rare genius or, at the very least, an appreciable talent. The usual suspects come to mind: Hemingway, Gershwin, Hopper. Another is to appeal to a particular cultural neurosis, a peculiar demographic phenomenon. It was the latter which brought the photographer Robert Mapplethorpe more fame than he ever could have imagined and, in the eyes of many, more fame than he ever deserved...
...free adaptation of an autobiographical book by Sister Prejean, they have chosen to pursue a matter too subtle for sloganeering: the faint possibility that evil and goodness can find a way of speaking to one another, the dim hope that the former can be in some sense redeemed, the latter in some sense educated...
...unpersuasively) insisting that he did not commit the killings. There is about him an inchoate rage tempered, if that's the word we want, by self-pity and a certain raw intelligence, which has led him to jailhouse lawyering and several stays of execution. It is largely the latter quality, and the challenging seductiveness of his manner, that leads Sister Helen to see in him the possibilities of redemption...
...first job: correspondent during the London blitz. He went on to win a Pulitzer chronicling the birth of the U.N. and, in 1953, became the paper's Washington bureau chief. As a thrice-weekly columnist, he gained fame for his deft prose, solid reporting and enviable access, but the latter often came at a price. In 1961, at President John F. Kennedy's request, he withheld what he knew of plans involving an obscure Cuban inlet called the Bay of Pigs. Reston later helped nurture the Times's op-ed page, bringing fresh voices to the paper, though...