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...came in droves in their jaguars and mink coats to cheer on their boys. Was it Harvard's best season ever? That question is almost nonsensical, for Harvard's history and consequently its football history has not been linear. Instead, Harvard football exists in incomparable moments. When Harvard beat Oregon 7-6 to win the Rose Bowl in 1919, it made history, but history in a different way--when white, male and Protestant were prerequisites to carrying a pigskin--that makes comparison between national champions of today and yestreday impossible...
...Nino panic is in full bloom. It's been blamed for an invasion of Argentine ants in Southern California, for starving seabirds off Oregon, for albatrosses abandoning their nests in the Galapagos Islands. An Israeli scientist thinks El Nino irregularities occasioned the biblical famine that led to the Jews' entry into Egypt--thus offering the nice ecumenical touch of El Nino, Spanish for the Christ Child, accounting for Passover...
...marriage were over, and his drinking and drug taking were out of control. "I remember being in a closet with someone who was shooting cocaine," he says, "and a voice said, 'Get out of there.'" He did get out of there, and spent six months in a cabin in Oregon, where he quit drinking and began to write. He moved to a tiny apartment in Greenwich Village. "My entire life," he says, "was my room and the A.A. meetings on Perry Street...
Today's impending decision on whether to legalize physician-assisted suicide in Oregon and this past weekend's conference at the Science Center on euthanasia have brought to light the national debate on the right...
...Cougars' loss means No. 6 Washington (7-1), a 27-0 winner over Southern California, has control of the Pac-10 race and goes to the Rose Bowl if it wins the rest of the way--against Oregon, UCLA and Washington State...