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...deathless man keeps resurfacing, most recently in a Masterpiece Theatre adaptation of The Return of the Native and now in a huge biography, Martin Seymour-Smith's Hardy (St. Martin's Press; 886 pages; $35). The latter is bulky enough to allow carrying it to qualify as aerobic exercise; its readers may wind up as hardy as Hardy. You might expect a smaller volume, given his relatively uneventful life. Born into a family of masons, he spent his days mostly in rural Dorset. Max Gate, the mansion he built for himself and lived in for more than 40 years...
...whether this is bad news depends on which side of the NAFTA debate you bought to begin with: Is Mexico's gain America's loss, or is trade a non-zero-sum game, in which both sides win more than they lose? Events of 1994 tend to support the latter case...
That leaves the latter two cities of Canton and Potsdam, both in New York, which happen to be the respective homes of St. Lawrence (6-7-1, 1-5-0) and Clarkson (8-4-2, 4-1-1)--where Harvard will play tonight and tomorrow...
...must be said that director Barry Levinson and screenwriter Paul Attanasio are great guys to waste time with. As he's proved with Quiz Show, the latter has a real flair for writing strong, confrontational scenes -- brisk, needling, well shaped -- and the former stages them with coolly concentrated intensity. And the cast is terrific. Douglas, with Fatal Attraction and Basic Instinct behind him, knows all about playing male victimization without total loss of amour propre. Moore's ferocity is totally unredeemed, therefore totally riveting. Donald Sutherland as their boss is computer-like: he has an almost-human brain...
...Mathews '95, managing editor of The Crimson, defended the paper's coverage of both the Martin event and of the BSA-organized celebration of the Kwanzaa holiday, the latter of which Kilson also criticized in his letter...