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...which had come off a 56-6 massacre at the hands of Stanford last week, looked much fresher after its 6000 mile journey than Harvard. Cornell players made diving catches, risking turf burns. The Big Red was willing to do anything...
...harnessing computers on behalf of art-historical truth; an auditorium; a restaurant; and a huge state-of-the-art facility for conservators. All this will be set amid gardens and fountains on a positively Olympian site -- 110 acres abutting the Brentwood neighborhood, on a hill just half a mile north of Sunset Boulevard -- with panoramas to die for. "You can see downtown, you can see UCLA, Century City, Santa Monica and the ocean," says Meier, who has lived half the time in a house on the site since...
...indeed, the winded reader reflects. But this very good writer can blow softly too, and listen well, and march simple sentences usefully across a flat place. This is not new information to those who read his 1983 best seller, Blue Highways, a marvelously quirky account of a 13,000-mile side-roads motor ramble around the U.S. He is better known by his pen name, William Least Heat- Moon, which comes from the Osage Indian part of his heritage. His father was Heat-Moon, meaning July, the hot month; his older brother Little Heat- % Moon; and he himself last...
UNDER Soviet rule, the only recognition of the deaths at Babi Yar was a memorial erected in 1974 to Soviet resistance fighters that is a mile away from the ravine where the Jews were killed. The Soviet government refused to admit what happened at Babi Yar because it didn't fit into its state-mandated history...
Then there's the 125-mile rule. Fine print says that you're guaranteed to get a seat within 125 miles of your first choice registration site. (This tickled the funny bone of the jolly Bolshie bureaucrat, no cartographer she, who told me they had once sent someone to Baltimore. Hyuk, hyuk...