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...Needless to say, Harvard dominated the team competition, finishing first with 810.50 total points. The second-place team, Princeton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HIGHLIGHTS | 3/12/1998 | See Source »

...such a bad thing after all. Certainly identity politics as we know it deserves to go away in a hurry, but a Minow-style concern for group rights is a subject that ought to stick around. The New Republic ran a piece this summer about the Latino-Jewish alliance. Needless to say, there did not turn out to be all that much of an alliance, just a coincidence of voting preferences. However, what came through is that the United States is going to be majority non-white sooner than later, and that it is going to be a mess...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stayin' Alive | 3/12/1998 | See Source »

...what is going to happen with the officiating when you show up for a game. Most games have two or three students reffing the games, but you can't really count on that. In one of our games we had one ref, who had never reffed a game before. Needless to say, the officiating was less than stellar, although it wasn't his fault...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Green Monster | 3/10/1998 | See Source »

...seemed to bring back happy memories to them both, and Pauline would run to him, throwing her arms around him, saying with big sobs of touching sentimentality, "Do you remember, Richard?"--and he would have tears in his eyes, too. They were a strange couple. They fought like mad--needless to say, Pauline always started the fights...He said to me when I departed: "You have seen a lot which you will find strange in this house. But believe me, all the praises in the world are not so refreshing as my wife's outbreaks of temperament...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sounding Off, Talking Back | 3/9/1998 | See Source »

...either condescending or passionate, neither of which applies to most of the people with whom I interact. Head-rubbing is reserved for moments between proud fathers and their Little-League-playing rugrats or intimate moments between lovers. Needless to say, none among you is my father, and I have no lover (but that's a separate editorial...

Author: By Baratunde R. Thurston, | Title: It's Not Your Afro | 3/2/1998 | See Source »

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