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...marquee match-up of the competition between Harvard captain Tim Wyant and Amherst ace Kevin Orphan was the highlight of the night. Orphan benefited from a few Wyant mistakes to win the first game 15-13, but the competition had just begun. Wyant used a devastating combination of hard-hitting and soft touch to confuse Orphan and win second game, 15-11. In the third game, Wyant kept a very calm demeanor and edged Orphan again...
...fatigue set in for the fourth game, Wyant wavered a bit. He committed a few key mishits, and Orphan, still playing strong, sensed the momentum shift. Orphan came out with a 15-9 win, and it looked like he would run Wyant into the ground in the fifth game...
...evidence that the White House may have paid or pressured Steele, a Republican, to contradict Willey. To that end, they have pored over her bank, credit and tax records, called her before two grand juries, forced family members to testify and inquired about her 1990 adoption of a Romanian orphan. Steele's brother Ben Hiatt is skeptical that Starr's office asked about the adoption just to see if she could be vulnerable to threats from the White House. He says the queries he received about the adoption--"Why did she do it? How could she afford...
...might expect after 12 hours of testimony. Hardened attorneys don't crack. Starr is eerily Clintonian at times. He hides behind his "professional staff," and when confronted with the charge that he'd intimidated a witness by questioning the legitimacy of her long-ago adoption of a Romanian orphan, he shifts responsibility to them, saying, "I don't go with my FBI agents on every single interview." He dodges when asked whether he wanted to wire Monica to get the goods on Clinton, even when reminded of it by an FBI report and Lewinsky's sworn testimony...
...author Beryl Bainbridge presents the first morbid snapshot in her 16th novel, Master Georgie (Carroll & Graf; 190 pages; $21), a deadpan tale of secrets and lies set in Liverpool and the Crimea in the 1840s and '50s. The story is told in alternating chapters by three characters: Myrtle, an orphan, in love with George, a doctor and amateur photographer; Pompey Jones, George's ambitious photo assistant and sometime lover; and Dr. Potter, an eccentric geologist. Each in the grip of a private obsession, the three follow George to the Crimean War--the first conflict to be covered by photographers...