Word: philadelphia
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Oliver North does not seem superstitious, and thus did not take his beloved Navy's 27-7 shellacking by Army as an omen for what the week ahead had in store for him. He attended the grand old game in Philadelphia as the guest of Navy Secretary John Lehman. North, like the good soldier he insists he is, spent his week without complaining -- and without explaining...
Julius ("Dr. J") Erving, the most watchable basketball player of the past 16 years, has begun to say goodbye to cities: Portland, Seattle, Oakland, Phoenix. At final stops along the Philadelphia 76ers' way, home teams have been introducing their own players first in order to build a crescendo for Dr. J, the National Basketball Association star who plays for everyone...
...while after the pro basketball merger, Erving and Philadelphia regularly fell just short of the ultimate victory. He kept telling himself that "the work itself is what counts. As hard as it was to make myself believe that, it was the only thing I had to cling to each year, that every game, every night, I did the best I could." In 1983 Philadelphia's eventual triumph seemed to be fundamentally his, and more than one city cheered...
...Orsay had its architect, and the choice held its own cultural significance. Not only would Orsay be directed by a woman, but it would be designed by one: Gae Aulenti. In the U.S., where no woman architect has ever had such a commission and only one major museum (the Philadelphia Museum of Art) has a woman director, this would have been seen as a major feminist victory. The French press hardly commented on it: a real meritocracy takes sexual equality for granted...
FEBRUARYSun. 1 at Princeton 10 a.m.Mon. 2 at Penn 1:00 p.m.Sat. 7 at Howe CupSun. 8 (Yale host) -Fri. 13 at USSRASat. 14 (Philadelphia) -Sun. 15 at USRRAMon. 16 (Philadelphia)Sat. 21 DARTMOUTH 2:00 p.m.Tue. 24 YALE 4:00 p.m.Fri. 27 at ISASat. 28 (Harvard host...