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...team held the lead and with it the chance to end a 12-game winless skid. The Crimson’s hopes, however, could not endure in the chill April rain as a second-half rally from the Eagles (9-5) sent Harvard (2-12, 0-5) home from Newton Campus Field with a 13-8 loss...
...clubhouse, and we'll learn down the road whether we made the right move at short. All these new pitchers-Clement, Miller, Mantei, our old whipping boy Wells-weren't they all dinged up, only yesterday? Our pitching roster could be the in-patient list at a Newton-Wellesley rehab clinic by July...
ARRESTED. Huey P. Newton, 43, co-founder of the Black Panthers, the violence- and faction-ridden black militant organization that enjoyed a radical-chic vogue in the 1960s and '70s; on charges that he and an associate embezzled as much as $67,000 in federal and state funds; in Oakland. The money was allegedly taken from a community education and nutrition program the Panthers operated from 1973 to 1983. A post-arrest police search of Newton's home turned up burglary tools, a loaded .45-cal. automatic and a shotgun, for which he also faces charges...
Given this pervasive electronic wallpaper, Martin naturally describes characters in terms ready made for a passive audience. The lawyer he chooses to represent him in the divorce is "a guy who looked like Wayne Newton." An oddly menacing figure who turns up at Dominica's motel "looked like Dustin Hoffman, for some reason." Similarly, Martin reports on natural scenery most confidently when he can compare it to name-brand products. Walking along the beach, he notes that "the Gulf shined like mylar." Out for a drive, he remarks, "The clouds were like spills of dark Cool Whip going in slow...
...narrative trajectories of a novice, racially-sensitive white cop (Ryan Phillippe) and an affluent, light-skinned black woman (Thandie Newton) asks hard questions about the nature of modern American racism—silent but virulent...