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Brown forward Marcus Thompson scored 34 points to lead Brown past New Hampshire in overtime Saturday in Durham...
...Forward Marcus Thompson, (19.3 p.p.g.) who was an All-Ivy honorable mention last year, is one of the most explosive offensive players in the league. He will be helped by junior forward Arthur Jackson (7.0 p.p.g.), who improved greatly at the end of last season...
Sales are slightly better at the Harvard Bookstore, where employee Stephanie Marcus said 22 copies had sold in the last two months...
...symbiotic murder-suicide by urges that both share but neither understands, seems a scenario only Cronenberg could dream up. In fact, the story comes from the novel Twins, by Bari Wood and Jack Geasland, which in turn was based on the case history of Drs. Cyril and Stewart Marcus, a pair of respected gynecologists who in 1975 were found dead in a Manhattan apartment. From these threads Cronenberg has spun a fantasia of split personality and the vulnerable male ego. The film's identical twins, Elliot and Beverly Mantle (both played by Jeremy Irons), are Toronto doctors with a reputation...
This version of the Nazarene, though clearly an empathic type, "is not a comforting figure," observes Robert Funk, founder of the Jesus Seminar and former administrator of the Society of Biblical Literature. "He's a troublemaker." Marcus Borg of Oregon State University concurs that this "subversive sage" was, like Socrates, out "to undermine the safe assumptions of conventional wisdom." That he chose to break bread with the lepers and outcasts of his day was a remarkable rejection of established Jewish mores, says Borg. Such scholars perceive a worldly revolutionary at work in the man who insisted, "The last will...