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This could be the entrance to the mysterious passages of Harvard lore. If there were no story of a Nazi spy eluding the F B I escaping through these-tunnels; you would have to invent one. Legend still insists that protestors in the angry riots of 1969 chased the administrators they blamed for Harvard's participation in the ROTC program into and through Harvard's subterranean maze. The year before, George Wallace had escaped from a pack of irate demonstrators by leaving Sanders Theater--where he was giving a speech--via the tunnels. And at one time, the wrestling team...
...very names evoke the lore and challenge of a classic individual sport: the Dee, the Tay, the Tweed. These famous fishing rivers of Scotland attract some 50,000 anglers a year, most of them lured by hopes of hooking the combative, and tasty, Atlantic salmon...
...show up in the uniform of last week's enemy. But to remain a baseball fan, one must drop a light green scrim of nostalgia across such details, the necessary treacheries. One must give oneself over to the illusion, the precisions and geometries and statistics and characters and lore of the game. In his autocratic passion, Steinbrenner, alas, exaggerates the worst traits of modern baseball: its crassness and faithlessness and shallow nastiness. He will not collaborate in the illusion, a form of American mysticism, really, that is baseball's most precious accomplishment. George is a regular walking sermon...
Normally, that is all there would have been to it, and the nasty, sordid little murder would have taken its place in local lore. But now the case may also earn the defendants a permanent niche in law-school textbooks, plus a place on death row. The reason is an apparently unique question of double jeopardy. It arises from the fact that while Becky Heath's body was found in La Grange, Ga., her murderers picked her up, or perhaps kidnaped her, from her home 45 miles away in Phenix City, Ala. And after some of the defendants...
...speaks for the Jews." Earl Shorris declares as an introduction to his attack on Jewish neoconservatives. But he is wrong. Jews everywhere feel compelled to speak about what it means to be a Jew Shorris, in fact, considers himself an expert and rambles expansively on the law, history and lore of his faith. Of chief concern to the author are those thinkers whom he accuses of speaking for the Jews without permission and with a perverted sense of Jewish ethics...