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...station, to Dudley Station, when you head off for the summer to non-institutional life. Though euphemisms like "academic community" and "a community of learned men and women" cloak it. Harvard is, at the bottom line, an institution. "We grind you out like link-sausages," the professor says in Marathon Man. Look around you. Harvard is a singularly dangerous institution, at that...
Harris' Perrier Survey of Fitness in America (done for the French mineral-water firm that co-sponsors the New York Marathon and other races) is based on personal interviews with 1,510 people and a telephone sample of 180 runners. The study finds that 41% of Americans get no exercise at all, 44% are somewhat active, and only 15% are seriously involved in regular exercise. This latter group of fitness freaks tends to favor calisthenics, running and basketball, while those who are less committed to physical exertion favor bowling, walking and swimming. On the basis of the poll, Harris...
...rookie from Long Island has posted a perfect 7-0 mark this year in the 118-pound class. Sophomore Rick Kief also started on a winning streak grabbing three wins in the quadrangular marathon...
Harvard's only loss came at the number two position, where Steve Bakalar dropped a five game marathon battle to Phil Adams by the painfully-close score...
English-speaking audiences usually sit through this marathon with only a vague idea of what's happening. They can tell the giants from the dwarfs, and maybe, after a couple of operas, they begin to realize the importance of that little gold ring. But unless you're willing to put in the time to read the entire libretto--and to study the leitmotif structure Wagner used to organize his music--the most you'll get out of the operas is a few gasps at the brilliance of the musical climaxes in between a lot of boredom. The subtleties Wagner took...