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...lace a pale and sickly sight...
...Rudy grew weak and pale...
...soft spots on the Garden parquet that Magic Johnson used to complain about are still around, but otherwise, basketball is a sport where tradition and leftovers from a past day pale in influence to what happens now. (Just ask the hapless C's.) And, the "now" is giving Harvard some quiet confidence...
...Auchincloss wrote about social decay, about the gradual bleeding of moral force and money from the old Protestant families of Manhattan. His Collected Stories (Houghton Mifflin; 465 pages; $24.95) were written from 1949 to the . present, and their themes are remarkably consistent. Again and again, Auchincloss describes pale people who turn their faces, shuddering, from the modern world. His male protagonists are weak and bloodless, his women lumpy and conflicted. As a class, they have even lost their ability to breed. "A virgin to both sexes" is a confessional phrase used more than once, wryly but without regret...
Terrorism is always a possibility, but the risks pale beside the opportunity of a pact with Syria. Even with Israel at peace with its other neighbors, Syria might seek to undermine the existing agreements if it remains the only state on Israel's borders still at war with it. Peace with Syria would also calm the region, help secure Western access to Middle East oil at reasonable prices and further isolate Iraq and Iran, the bad actors supporting the world's worst terrorists...