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...elitism as for its methodical sports teams. Its men's and women's basketball teams pass around the perimeter endlessly, or at least until one of its opponents is a split-second behind on a cut, and its men's lacrosse team won a national championship by essentially boring Maryland to death...
...render something--a distant pile of sticks, say, in a field--without actually knowing what it was. The hyperrealist Chuck Close has gone one better than that. In 1971 he painted the face of his father-in-law Nat Rose. The huge, minutely detailed likeness was bought by a Maryland collector who lent it to the Whitney Museum in New York City. There it was seen by an ophthalmologist who, not sure whether he was intruding or not, got a message to Close. Did he know that one eye of the man in the painting showed signs of carcinoma...
...mystery, which had most of Washington in thrall last week, seems only to deepen. Landow, a Maryland real estate developer, has told friends that Willey called him a number of times in recent months seeking favors. In fact, Landow claims to have saved voice mail from Willey, a source told TIME. In one message, she asked him to buy a $1,500 table at a USO dinner (Clinton had appointed her to the USO board) and escort her. In another, she described herself as "all stressed out" and asked if he had a Florida retreat she could...
...damages after it failed to deliver on a $45 million contract to computerize the state's Medicaid system. And last month Lockheed Martin admitted that the first year of its Baltimore child-support-collection program fell more than 22% short of its promised performance. A demonstration project run by Maryland state workers in a nontraditional manner has so far managed to collect child-support payments at a much higher rate than has Lockheed Martin...
...only non-conference setbacks that Harvard suffered were losses to Maryland and South Carolina, leaving the Crimson at 9-1 heading into the Ivy League season. Harvard hit a pair of stumbling blocks there as well--including a loss to Dartmouth in its regular-season finale--which only set the stage for the Crimson's postseason drama...