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FOR SIX RELENTLESS DAYS, HUGE waves and strong winds mercilessly pounded the oil tanker Braer, grounded on the rocks of Fitful Head in the unspoiled Shetland Islands. Bit by bit, the cargo of 26 million gal. of Norwegian light crude leaked into the sea, turning it chocolate brown. On the...
NOTES: Freshman goalie Tripp Tracy is now the top-ranked goalie in ECAC hockey, after stopping 23 shots against Union (and after St. Lawrence's Brady Giroux had trouble holding off Providence)...Colgate's Andrew Dickson was named ECAC Player of the Week, after picking up four points in Colgate...
This is hard on journalists, who are trained to spot trendlets in their infancy and hype them into vast cultural sea changes. Not too long ago, for instance, this magazine announced a "new-simplicity" trend involving antimaterialism and wood-burning stoves -- and then the new simplicity turned out to be...
"I'm not telling you this because it's a pitiful story," she says, but because similar cases occur "across the University" and people don't know about them.
The prevailing view among middle-of-the-road Catholics appears to be that no letter at all would have been better than the tepid lip service embodied in the fourth draft. "It has been revised and qualified into insignificance," says theologian Rausch with a shrug. On the left, Ruth Fitzpatrick...