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DIED. JAMES MICHENER, 90, prolific and peripatetic author who embarked on a lifelong literary tour of the globe; after taking himself off dialysis; in Austin, Texas. While a Navy lieutenant during World War II, Michener began writing Tales of the South Pacific, a collection of stories that won him the...
Rawson recounts dozens of fights, his tales of perseverance peopled with corrupt referees, dirty timekeepers and guys with names like "Patty Irish." Rattling off the records and weight classes of opponents the way a preacher might cite lines from scripture, he relives each bout for me, gesticulating with his thick...
Try to imagine this: a mainstream American movie, rife with violent and often murderous behavior, yet so densely plotted, so richly peopled, that you can't summarize it in a sentence. Or a paragraph. Or several of them. Imagine, as well, a film set in the exotic past--Los Angeles...
Though in common they have youth, a propensity for bleak subject matter and an ability to write beautifully about it, the three playwrights are very different. Marber, a Londoner who got his start on the comedy circuit performing stand-up and working with the popular television comedian Steve Coogan, crafts...
When Harvard received its seeding in the NCAA Midwest Regional Tournament, sixth in a six-team field, scheduled to battle top-seeded UCLA in the first round, the doubters of Harvard baseball--and Ivy League baseball in general--ho-hummed. UCLA was stocked with redshirt athletes and future Major Leaguers...