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...Wordplay should prove "a feline bite (6)" - catnip - to the millions of crossword addicts, and to lots of others who enjoy a tough game played with smarts and heart. For me, the movie and its milieu induced a little ache of nostalgia. For a decade or so I solved the Times crossword every day. Then, in 1981, I discovered Sondheim's book of cryptics, and the devious, luxuriant word play had me hooked. Now I search them out in Harper's, The Nation, The Atlantic (where they have been demoted to appearing only online - shame!), Games and the book collections...
...will say a lot about the future of the insurgency, whether it is part of the global jihad or a so-called nationalist endeavor to remove an occupying power. Whoever it is, however, both U.S. and Iraqi officials fear that he will try to make a big statement to prove himself. "We're worried about what the next guy will do to make a name for himself," says a senior Iraqi military official...
...local for a week in January--hardly a season of plenty in New England. It wasn't so bad, what with baked squash, wheat-berry porridge, Vermont-cheese fondue, Indian pudding, parsnips, maple-apple pie and even elk and emu meat. But now that they have nothing to prove, they're reverting to August, as are two Vermont groups. Why make the effort at all? McGovern says she feels powerless to fight the globalization of the food supply, "But locally, I can vote with my food dollar three times a day--breakfast, lunch and dinner...
...Harvard’s 27th University president. Hailing from his post as U.S. Secretary of Treasury, Summers was Harvard’s first president to make the jump from Washington D.C. politics to what is arguably the ivory tower’s highest office. In many ways, this preparation proved to be a mixed blessing, engendering a relentless push for change that at once made Summers compelling and sowed the seeds for his downfall. Election cycles dictate the pace of activity in Washington D.C., and often it seemed as though Summers couldn’t leave that pace behind when...
...first. It aims to ensure that every class is as or more qualified academically, creative artistically, diverse in economic and gender and ethnic terms, than its predecessors. And after every admission season of high anxiety, we witness its success: the Class of 2010 will now have the opportunity to prove, over the next four years, that it can bear comparison with the great Class of 2006. Meanwhile, the admissions office has started to worry about the Class...