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Tomorrow's game represents the midpoint of the season, with the NCAA tournament looming ahead. In lacrosse, the top 12 teams make the post-season tournament. Currently, Harvard is tied for 11th...
...groundbreaking comic, like Groucho Marx or George's old friend Jack Benny. But no one commanded the stage with more easygoing--and, as the years went on, inspiring--authority. He was 62 when his wife and longtime partner Gracie Allen retired, but his career was barely past its midpoint. He went on to even greater success in nightclubs, television and movies. His longevity became part of his appeal and the subject of his comedy. "It's nice to be here," he would typically announce. "At my age, it's nice to be anywhere." Years in advance, he scheduled a 100th...
THIS IS A STORY ABOUT CAROL AND PAUL MEDIAN, she 32 and he 34, married for one year and living just south of Bloomington, Indiana. They are as average as can be. Last year Paul earned $28,449, and Carol made $23,479, precisely the midpoint paychecks for men and women their age. It also happens that their part of Indiana is the population center of the U.S. Since no real-life couple is truly typical, however, I have created the fictional Medians, going by Census figures, to give a sense of the exact middle of American life. In ways...
...subjects are the British code breakers who with rarefied intelligence and brain-fogging labor broke the German Enigma code in March 1943. Their feat, which helped turn the war at a very dark midpoint, allowed the reading of coded messages to and from German submarine wolf packs. The subs, whose attacks on U.S. freighter convoys in the North Atlantic were starving Britain, could then be tracked and sunk...
...time. They're rich, sick, steeped in shame and caffeine, and "in the heat of sale, they needed to keep talking, and they said whatever came to them, as long as it was just color commentary ." So airless is this hive, it is not till near the book's midpoint that we learn that the office action, as distinct from the global flow of byte-driven hysteria, takes place in San Francisco. Some of the brighter salesmen muse about quitting, but to do what? As this amiable tour of the information economy makes clear, the wider world of wives, children...