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Weathercasters: Mostly Cloudy As your Essay on the art of weathercasting [March 17] notes, TV weather reporters on occasion fall into a sort of self-satire. After the usual "happy talk" clowning with his colleagues, one announcer lapses into a discussion of the "good guys" and the "bad guys," which...
The mathematics are awesome: if Hunt's group really does own 200 million oz. of silver, its value would have fallen from $10 billion at the $50 January price to around $3 billion early Thursday, and then dropped another $1 billion that day alone. But even at the late Thursday...
A tempest in a chrysanthemum teacup? Not entirely. Critics of Critic Sheraton object that on occasion she is unnecessarily vitriolic. Says one noted food writer: "She writes laundry lists, not reviews. Mimi is far more concerned with whether a restaurant serves the third or fourth best kidneys in town than...
Harvard supergoalie John Lechner, having lapsed momentarily to mere mortality in the middle of the game, once again rose to the occasion and dug out the exploding grounders and whizzing bullets the Quakers tried to slip by.
Thwarted expectations make for grumpy readers, and Freddy's manuscript, a rather dry narrative of political intrigue in 16th century Scandinavia, does not seem calculated to appease them. The chief antagonists to emerge from much torchlit huggermugger are Lars-Goren, an idealistic Swedish knight, and the Devil, who decides...