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BILLIE JEAN KING 1975 Tennis legend, feminist icon (TIME honored her in 1975 as one of 12 Women of the Year...
...history, has meaningfully contributed to the success and magnificent evolution of the nation. All over the world, when people mention Britain, it immediately brings to mind the royal family and especially Queen Elizabeth II, one of the great figures of the 20th century. George Agathokleous Athens Legacy of a Legend At a school function, i learned of the death of civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks from an eighth-grade student [Nov. 7]. I was struck by the complexity of God's will in our lives. Could Parks have dreamed, as she rode the bus in Montgomery, Alabama...
...long can an upmarket myth linger before tatty reality rubs it out? The legend of old Broadway-when stories of poor boys winning the hearts of rich girls served as metaphors for the irresistibility of American ambition, and debonair stars introduced songs that instantly found a spot in the everyone's internal juke box-is a good half-century out of date. No #1 Billboard hit has come from a Broadway musical since Judy Collins' "Send in the Clowns" from the Steven Sondheim A Little Night Music in 1973. No Broadway musical has put a bunch of its tunes...
...based on the gorgeously photo-realistic Doom 3 software. It runs on the muscular new Xbox 360 hardware. It features concert-hall-clear audio effects (listen to those tinkly brass shell casings bounce!) and the ultrafast, hyperviolent futuristic military combat that made the Quake franchise a thing of legend, including classic death-match action and some brand-new elements--vehicular combat and squad tactics--thrown in for good measure. Well, space marine, is there a problem...
...said Yale coach Jack Siedlecki about his team’s upset of Princeton and loss to the Crimson. “They played two of the most memorable football games Yale has ever played,” Saturday’s game is going into Harvard-Yale legend. For both sides, it alternated between being exhilarating and demoralizing. It was the first time Harvard has won five consecutive playings of The Game, the first Ivy game ever to go into triple overtime, and it was a rarity in that neither team put points on the scoreboard until the third...