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...double victory came as a pleasant surprise to Harvard Coach Frank Haggerty, who expected more competition from the Northeastern Huskies, the 1988 men's champions and this year's favorite...
...apologized for running the piece, as we should have. It was, in some respects, the equivalent of running a discussion of Dr. King's sex life on his birthday. But it was not a pleasant experience to have a Black law school student suggest that I was a racist or that our institution was racist for having printed it. The intent was not to offend, but the effect was to have done so. In addition to the apology, we ran a piece critical of the profile and challenging the appropriateness of having...
...Club, a gym popular with commodities brokers. One agent who called himself Richard Carlson claimed that he specialized in soybean contracts and was a native New Yorker; the other, who called himself Michael McLoughlin, said he worked the Treasury- bond pit and was from Florida. "Both were nice guys, pleasant, friendly," recalls a trader. "Now that I think of it, they asked an awful lot of questions, but I thought it was just eagerness to learn...
...road to New Haven was paved with pleasant and, on occasion, unexpected turns...
...buildings and products are lively and provocative even as they avoid ideological purity. The compelling modernism of the moment is lush, dreamy and concerned with appropriateness, not big, inhumane and cookie-cutter corporate; successful ersatz-old-fashioned buildings are lately tough and even somber, not merely quaint and pleasant. Hybrids abound, and modesty is a virtue. Tod Williams and Billie Tsien's Long Island pool house, for example, combines industrial materials and delicate details. The Clayton County (Ga.) Library delivers a high concept with a relatively low budget. The finest work, from Washington's restored Union Station to the sleek...