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...comes across as your basic nest of contradictions. His very name is a fiction (Woody Allen is the sort of name suitable for a Catskill jester, not a renowned auteur), yet he strips himself naked in every film. A private person with an itch to dine out (at Elaine's, at the Russian Tea Room), he wants to be admired but not approached. He says he doesn't read reviews of his work, yet he counts as one of the four most important people in his career Vincent Canby, the New York Times critic whose reviews have exhausted superlatives...
Harvard must still beat a weaker nest of Ivy League contenders to officially capture the Eastern Region title. But if matches against Columbia and Pennsylvania two weeks ago are any indication of what Harvard will be up against, the Crimson has only itself to fear. Harvard didn't lose a single game in either of those matches...
...development. Using the money to pay off foreign debt, as Argentina has done, seems a riskier course. Unloading national assets without attracting new capital is somewhat akin to an individual's selling his house to pay for a new automobile. When the car finally breaks down, there is no nest egg to finance...
...right base for such ventures is a handsome and well-run lodge on Ambergris Cay called El Pescador, which has all the best guides -- and a welcoming committee of two ospreys that have built their nest above its pier and greet the arriving angler with shrill wheep-wheep-wheeps of alarm. El Pescador was built by a German, Juergen Krueger, and his Wisconsin-born wife. They started it about 18 years ago, when no sober carpenter could be hired on the cay. Much of the work, from laying cinder blocks to routing the panels in the heavy mahogany doors...
...that the Harvard ideal to put the pursuit of education before all else rules out the presence of racism. Racism is not necessarily born of ignorance; not the whole lot of slaveowners, Colonialists and Imperialists could have been fools. Even if we at Harvard do abide in a liberal nest of Political Correctness, don't make the mistake of thinking that I don't carry my set of past experiences with me every day I walk through Harvard Yard, because I do. My attitudes and treatment of people on issues regarding race and ethnicity are not formed solely from being...