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...Holy Cross has committed to joining the new Colonial League at the end of decade. The new conference will pattern itself on the Ivy League. Carter is too good to coach at that level...
...Auburn St., the site of a proposed dormitory for University affiliates. On the surface, Harvard wants to raze a 93-year-old building to construct 50 units of housing, but has encountered widespread opposition from the neighborhood. What really scares area residents about the project is the pattern of University expansion across their neighborhood's landscape--from Peabody Terrace to Leverett House and from Mather House to this new dorm. Unfortunately, Harvard officials have only bowed to community pressure in this case when city laws have forced them...
...degrees 14 min. west, nobody has ever been sure of the exact coordinates; an error of only minutes in either direction translates into an uncertainty of many square miles. Worse, the ocean floor has bumps, rolls and other geological features that could produce a reflected sound-wave pattern confusingly similar to that of a sunken ship...
...times McManus offers addled expertise. He tells new husbands how to build up a gun collection without attracting the attention of their wives. Hint: get the little woman to stop counting rifles and start thinking "all those guns." He also offers some badly needed collective nouns, based on the pattern of an exaltation of larks: a sulk of unsuccessful fishermen, a whiff of skunk trappers, a cramp of camp cooks. All of which should beguile McManus' growing cackle of devotees...
...gritty South Florida ambience and the cool charisma of Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas, who star as Miami Detectives Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs. Since the end of May, the show's reruns have finished in the Nielsen Top Ten for ten of eleven weeks. Following the pattern of another innovative cop show that caught on during its first summer of reruns, Miami Vice is poised to become TV's next breakthrough hit. "Like Hill Street Blues before it, Miami Vice has redefined the cop-show genre," says Brandon Tartikoff, programming chief of NBC, the former last-place network...