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...biggest winners, U.S. presidents. Burr casts both Jefferson and George Washington in a harsh light. "Lincoln" portrays its protagonist as almost diabolically unknowable in his use of power; "Empire" makes merry with the boisterously ambitious Theodore Roosevelt. Vidal's fiction strives mightily to transform the faces on the Mount Rushmore monument into rubble and scree...
...Harvard's women will join the men at the Yale Invitational, play the following week at the Mount Holyoke Invitational and then travel down to the Garden State for the Rutgers Invitational...
...weeks. In founding the modern Games, Baron Pierre de Coubertin sought to recreate ancient Olympia, when "letters and the arts were always harmoniously combined with sport." But after his Pentathlon of the Muses was abandoned in 1948, Olympic arts have often been sidelined by sport. "Whatever festival you mount, it will only ever be a pendant event to what is, after all, the biggest festival in the world--the Olympic Games," Schofield says...
...acres of the West will lie blackened for a long time, and in some places will never regenerate. The sight of all that devastation will make the culture war even more intense. But nature is resilient. Life eventually reclaimed even the devastated moonscape left behind by the explosion of Mount St. Helens...
Even though a record 1.26 million high school students took the SAT this year, more and more colleges are heeding Wellstone's call. This year Mount Holyoke became the sixth elite liberal-arts college in the past five years to stop requiring the SAT for admission. The Florida state-university system has joined the University of Texas in basing most acceptances on class rank, regardless of SAT scores, as a response to the state-mandated end to affirmative action. A record 280 colleges and universities--many of them smaller schools--will ignore the SAT in admissions this fall for some...