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Ever since Harper's Editor Lewis Lapham, 46, announced his resignation last month, the troubled 131-year-old monthly (circ: 336,000) has been engaged in an intense head-hunting expedition. Last week the search committee, headed by Rutgers English Professor Richard Poirier, chose Lapham's replacement: Michael Kinsley, 30, Harvard graduate, lawyer and an editor since 1976 of the New Republic (circ. 97,000). Says Harper's Publisher David Michaels: "He is young, and he was the one person we saw who seemed to present any solid opinion about what we should do for the magazine...
UConn's Janice Poirier barely outswam Smith in the 100 free, requiring a judge's decision to break a virtual tie, as both swimmers clocked identical 55.91 times in the hand-timed meet...
...medley relay--1. UConn (Kudlaeik, Droppo, Fortin, Black) 2:00.98; 2. Harvard 2:07.12; 3. UConn 2:11.20; 4. Harvard 2:14.59. 200-yd. individual medley--1. Langenahn (C) 2:18.46; 2. Poirier (C) 2:21.19; 3. McAree (H) 2:27.10. 100-yd. freestyle--1. Tobiason (C) 57.12; 2. Costin (H) 57.94; 3. Sachanchak (C) 58.22. 50-yd. backstroke--. Langenahn (C) 29.31; 2. Kudlacik (C) 31.87; 3. Kelley (H) 32.35. 5$-yd. breaststroke--1. Joel (H) 33.14; 2. Droppo (C) 33.81; 3. Poirier (C) 34.90. 100-yd. butterfly--1. Black (C) 1:04.47; 2. McAree (H) 1:06.36; Fortin...
...freestyle--1. Costin (H) 26.69; 2. Poirier (C) 26.78; 3. Mazzonne (H) 27.24. 100-yd. backstroke--1. Langenahn (C) 1:04.09; 2. Kudlacik (C) 1:08.92; 3. Stuart (H) 1:11.16. 100-yd. individual medley--1. Costin (H) 1:06.45; 2. Black (C) 1:06.84; 3. Sochanchak (C) 1:08.10. 200-yd. freestyle--1. Tobiason (C) 2:03.92; 2. Joel (H) 2:03.92; 3. Adams (H) 2:11.08. 50-yd. butterfly--1. Droppo (C) 29.45; 2. Fortin (C) 29.51; 3. McAree (H) 31.29. Three-meter diving--1. Stone (H); 2. Gustafson (C). 100-yd. breaststroke--1. Joel (H) no times...
...Cinemah that intends to be critically truthful must reflect that fragmentation by making criticism of "bourgeois forms" part of the "data" imparted to an audience. (Every well-meaning cloud-nine intellectual should be required to serve in a factory of a chain gang.) Thus, say Sontag and Poirier, the most important films of the past decade have been the political works of Godard and Rocha, even though these guys are in the baby league as far as politicians go. For my money, the best political film ever made is called Salvatore Giuliano, and was made by an Italian Marxist. Francesco...