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While the Stanfords and Georgias of the nation racked up intercollegiate championships, the Harvards of the northeast struggled to earn the lone eastern regional berth to the NCAA Championships...
While the Stanfords and Georgias of the nation racked up intercollegiate championships, the Harvards of the northeast struggled to earn the lone eastern regional berth to the NCAA Championships...
When Yeltsin became president of Russia last June, he carried most of the republic's cities by large majorities, but he did not fare so well in rural areas, where resistance to change remains strong. In Leshkovo, a village about 35 miles northeast of Moscow, the prospect of Yeltsin's wresting control of Russia from the shattered central government did not impress Nikolai Petrovich, a 67-year-old pensioner, whose refusal to give his last name betrayed a fear of contact with foreigners rarely found nowadays in urban areas...
...contestants are nice to look at -- knockouts, a couple of them. They are also played by men. This twist gives the burlesque a wierd glow and cues some wonderfully precise writing and acting. Pageant, conceived and directed by Robert Longbottom, never degenerates into drag queens unchained. Like Miss Industrial Northeast (Joe Joyce), who roller-skates while playing the Sabre Dance on her accordion, the show is perfectly poised on the precipice of farce. And like Miss West Coast (John Salvatore), who performs an interpretive dance called "The Seven Ages of Me," Pageant is all about ego and the denial...
White-tailed deer are suburban creatures, and a surge in the deer population as forests have regrown in the Northeast offers one reason that Lyme disease has hit hard in New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Pennsylvania and lower New England. Wisconsin and Minnesota have had smaller outbreaks, and so, though the ticks are a different species, has Northern California...