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...original, straight lines represent current relationships. Dashed lines stand for hook-ups, lines with Xs through them for broken relationships and dotted lines represent relationships mysteriously labeled "other," whatever that means. With such ornate penmanship, Jane's roommate Lucy '03 crafted the chart complete with color-coding, a legend and quotes from proctor Chris. Jane declares the chart "is absolutely true," but admits there are some inside jokes and unsubstantiated rumors. In addition, Jane concedes that the chart is incomplete. And as a warning to readers, the sexima carta--over three weeks old--does not represent the current status...
...Saturday, with some help from the Israeli police, John Paul defied rumors of trouble at Nazareth's Church of the Annunciation. It was in this place that the Angel Gabriel is believed to have told Mary she would give birth to the Messiah; accordingly, a legend on the altar reads HERE THE WORD WAS MADE FLESH. But it was also here last year that Muslim riots broke out when Christians objected to a mosque going up nearby. No disturbances rent the peace during the Pope's two-hour Mass, however, perhaps because a Muslim prayer leader preached against disturbances after...
...repose is a cool star; Li in action is a hot one. In The New Legend of Shaolin, he fights off a dozen attackers with his infant son strapped to his back. His martial poses have classic beauty and power. His spin-kicks flout all laws of physics; there's nothing like Jet Li in a foot fight. His best Hong Kong movies (such as Fong Sai Yuk and My Father Is Hero) offer buoyant, daredevil action comedy of the kind no other national cinema even tries to touch...
...Isaiah Berlin. And of course there is McCarthy's archenemy, Lillian Hellman. In a taped interview with Dick Cavett, first aired in 1980, McCarthy said, with only slight hyperbole, that "every word she writes is is a lie, including and and the." Hellman, the self-mythologizing Stalinist Blackglama legend, sued, but died before the matter came to trial...
DIED. MACK ROBINSON, 85, silver medalist who finished a step behind Jesse Owens in the 1936 Olympics 200 m, but whose success was overshadowed by his brother, baseball legend Jackie; in Pasadena, Calif...