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This was refreshing to hear. Athletes such as Dwight Gooden, Wade Boggs and Lawrence Taylor have degraded their sports and let down their admirers. Gooden and Taylor used cocaine, and Boggs was a self-proclaimed "sex-addict". But FloJo is both a model for track and for kids...
...Let us not be detoured or distracted from this ultimate question by [this year's Beanpot] victory. Consider these facts: 1) Harvard has what is probably the finest hockey team in its history; 2) Even this team barely made it into the finals--a first for Harvard since 1981 and only the second time since 1978, despite the fact that over that span Harvard has usually had better teams than any of its opponents and has six times made the NCAA playoffs; 3) In the third period of the Boston College game this year, Harvard entered the period with...
...could get caught up in the rankings, like we did at Yale," sophomore Ted Donato said. "We can't let that happen again...
...local Googolplex to see a new comedy starring Tom Hanks, exemplary nice guy. This time, the overgrown kid from Big is playing Ray Peterson, an amiable businessman whose idea of an O.K. vacation is to hang around his pleasant home in numbingly normal Hinckley Hills and be lazy. Let his wife (Carrie Fisher) and son go to their lakeside cottage; he'll just veg out, watch TV and keep an eye on those . . . well, darned odd neighbors who recently moved next door. These people talk funny; they don't socialize; they probably smell bad. So Ray and his friends will...
When covering death, reporters and editors face a difficult paradox: the best material in a journalistic sense very often turns out to be what is most painful to grieving survivors. News organizations, driven by intense competition, rarely let concern for a victim's privacy get in the way of a scoop. The push for live coverage of late-breaking news has put local TV stations in the uncomfortable position of being able to broadcast word of a person's death before the victim's family has been officially notified...