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...might think this makes me bitter, playing digital Salieri to Kinsley's Mozart. But I am a realist. I need Kinsley the same way a coal miner needs his canary. Which is to say, if I see him topple from his perch as an online publisher, I'm dashing for the exit. That's part of the reason I made a point of meeting him for dinner the last time I visited Seattle. I was worried...
...Alabama was 11th, followed by Louisiana State, Virginia Tech, Miami, Northwestern, Washington, Kansas State, Iowa, Notre Dame, Michigan, Syracuse, Wyoming, Texas, Auburn and Army. With the rout, Florida avenged not only a 24-21 loss to the Seminoles just 33 days ago that knocked them off college football's perch, but last year's 62-24 thumping by Nebraska in the title game at the Fiesta Bowl. "They just beat us at every part of the game," Florida State coach Bobby Bowden said. "They kept us pinned down the whole night." Heisman Trophy winner Danny Wuerffel...
Incumbent Domenici, who once pitched for the Albuquerque Dukes, won his past two elections with 72% and 73% of the vote, and is favored to win his sixth term just as handily. In the Senate he has made his name as a deficit hawk, sitting on his powerful perch as chairman of the Budget Committee, and he clashes even with fellow Republicans when their proposals to cut taxes--especially the capital-gains tax--would stand in the way of a balanced budget...
...immune to this. No. 16 Harvard (6-3, 3-0 Ivy) defeated Cornell 3-2 in its only game last week, while No. 18 Princeton (9-1, 4-0) blasted Brown 8-0 but fell to No. 20 Lafayette, 3-2, which dropped the Tigers from their previous perch...
...teemed with movies about women. Strong women, saintly or desperate ones, but always smart. Greta Garbo drove men to their doom; Barbara Stanwyck did the same and went along for the ride. Carole Lombard traded quips and punches with her co-stars. Rosalind Russell ran giant corporations from her perch as executive secretary to some very soft plutocrats. Katharine Hepburn, a cool goddess, came to earth to cuddle with Spencer Tracy. Bette Davis strutted her sensationally neurotic hauteur. Joan Crawford played the unapologetic gold digger, which is how she leveled half a dozen other star actresses in The Women. These...