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Arriving in the same recruiting class as Crimson legend Dan Clemente `01, Coleman received a fair amount of playing time both as a freshman and as a sophomore. Over those first two years, he averaged 2.3 points and 2.2 rebounds a game. Classes went fine and Coleman remembers enjoying the competitiveness and camraderie of the team...
...year-old mother will have slipped off by then. Chen, now retired, is one of the trackers who dragged boats upstream through the Gorges in the days before motor transport became standard. Although trackers haven't worked the Yangtze for more than a decade, they are immortalized in legend and song, and by authors in the West such as John Hersey and Paul Theroux. We have come to Chen's home in Daxi in part because of Hersey's 1956 novel, A Single Pebble, which vividly describes the Qutang trackers' path, a narrow walkway carved into the cliff wall. Hersey...
...surgery causes KISS to cancel WTC benefit, proving that 24-in. platform boots are not a good, long-term, orthopedic solution CHRISTIE'S Auction house cheats itself by selling million-dollar violin for $48,000. Ups opening bid for Golden Girls collectible plates to $2 million BOB DYLAN Legend denied backstage entry to own show as guards don't recognize him. Finally got in by claiming to be Mick Jagger's mother...
...AWARDED. PETER CAREY, 58, the Booker Prize for his book True History of the Kelly Gang, a fictionalized account of Australian legend Ned Kelly, the notorious outback gangster-turned-Robin Hood; in London. Carey became the second author in the prize's 33-year history to win twice, after South African J.M. Coetzee. Carey first won the Booker in 1988 for Oscar and Lucinda. DIED. JAY LIVINGSTON, 86, Oscar-winning composer and lyricist whose collaboration with Ray Evans produced such hits as Silver Bells and Que Sera Sera; in Los Angeles. During their 64-year partnership the duo received seven...
...dangerously naive. The Arab press, whose excesses have long been ignored by the Western chattering classes, can be compared in its poisonous rantings only to the anti-Semitic propaganda organs of Nazi Germany. And in the fevered minds of Islamic leaders, from clerics to politicians, every hoary anti-Semitic legend seems to be recycled, with medieval bones clothed in modern flesh...