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The heart-breaking loss in Worcester Saturday night marked the end of a CR&L basketball legacy. The Cambridge cagers entered the championship tourney on the heels of an 18-game winning streak. In addition they hadn't lost a game inside the state in more than two years.
While the White House has been in and out of more political battles than one can count in the past half a dozen years, the armies of the industrialized world have been mercifully underemployed. There have been no superpower standoffs, no new Viet Nams in Central America, no Cuban missile...
Ted Silva '89, a first generation Portuguese-American and campus expert on all things Portuguese (and coincidentally my roommate), assures us that Casa Portugal has the genuine Old World atmosphere. Eating at the Casa Portugal is a family legacy passed on to Ted by his brother Louie '84, and passed...
Today those words still apply to too many conductors and their orchestras. Beethoven symphonies are wolfed down like bran flakes, high in moral fiber and good for the soul; meanwhile, less celebrated works are regarded as the aural version of empty calories. Here, apparently, is the enduring Toscanini legacy, and...
Flanked by bunting, two marching bands, a full choir, 2,800 flag-waving supporters, his mother, his photogenic wife Jane, his three children and many of the local and national politicians who have endorsed him, Gephardt became the first Democrat to declare his candidacy for the 1988 presidential race. Invoking...