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...Giroux; $15), reveals in owlish, bumpety-bump verse and vivid drawings why the great man entered politics: because his livestock drove him goobers. His cows insisted on wearing lavender gowns and being sprayed with cologne (which was quite expensive); his pigs wore wigs and served dinner to guests at Mount Vernon (very nicely too, but still ); and his sheep wore academic gowns and delivered lectures. They "measured the sea with a stick./ Then, raising their hoofs in triumph, they cried:/ 'We say with a certain amount of pride,/ If the ocean were stood up on its side/ You would...
...started out rockily. In our first three games, we best Melrose and Lexington but lost to Woburn, which was neither expected nor forgivable. It was a Tuesday night away game, one of those games that it's intrinsically hard to get excited about. We came out flat, letting Woburn mount a 15-3 lead. We battled back valiantly, and even had a chance to win the game. But we didn...
...another secret memo TIME has obtained, which Perry sent Lake later in the week, Perry wants to have NATO assume complete command of any evacuation of peacekeeping troops should that become necessary. It might, if Republican Majority Leader Bob Dole's plan to lift the arms embargo unilaterally and mount aggressive NATO air strikes passes Congress. NATO could be forced to attempt a "hostile extraction" of U.N. forces, and at least 10,000 American troops would be needed. In fact NATO is already speeding up its evacuation planning, and Perry asked for authority to tell the alliance the U.S. would...
...until there were five minutes left in the game that Harvard could finally mount a flurry of shots on the goalie. But Cavicchi met the challenge, turning away all six shots he faced and thus preserving the second-half shutout...
Ordinary mortals may find themselves succumbing to a kind of ennui auguste by the time they come to the end of the exhibition. But this has always been part of the experience of scaling Mount Poussin. "Some people blame him for having gone a little too far in his austere and precise manner," wrote the poet Charles Perrault in 1700, "but others maintain that these defects are nothing other than beauties which are a little too great for unaccustomed eyes." Among those "others" have been most of the best French artists of the past two centuries -- not only the classicists...