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...truly formidable academic hoax stalks the eastern seaboard. Its name sours on the lips of every true devotee of veritas. (We need no artificial lux for intellectual trail-blazing under Cambridge’s bright daytime skies; and unlike Yalies, we actually have lives once the sun goes down, and visits to the local police station don’t count.) But as pathetic as Eli is, he is an insidious pest. The task of eliminating the malformed menace from New Haven is a Herculean one, far beyond the reach of any one class or team. Harvard?...
...Hoteliers have arrived with their eyes on the prize. Resorts are springing up alongside the fish-sauce stalls that line the town's only paved street. While the place may yet become a Phuket or a Boracay, Phan Thiet is currently at the lux-backwater stage, with comfortable hotels that are still relatively affordable. The Victoria Phan Thiet resort offers air-conditioned bungalows, each with a sea view and most with a balcony, for $113-$154 a night; call (84-62) 813 000 or go to victoriahotels-asia.com for reservations. The similarly styled Coco Beach resort, located in the center...
Once again, the Crimson are the big winners by 7. Harvard may lack lux, but the Cantabs opened up a big can of veritas on the Yalie intruders this weekend...
Want to visualize second-best? Just look into the Lux...
...world "Sweet Smell" so pungently defines was nearly in the past tense. The Broadway we glimpse under the opening credits reveals a street little like today's. The Trans-Lux Theatre, the Warner and Capital and Rivoli: all are gone. So are the roomy, stately Checker Cabs. The Palace Theatre, where the Herbie Temple sequence was shot, dropped vaudeville shortly after the picture was made. The Brill Building, Tin Pan Alley's Deco palace, still gleams, though it was never a residence; J.J.'s penthouse apartment, with its marble finishings, a Xanadu-size fireplace and a terrace that beckons frail...