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...most confusing games to follow is women's lacrosse. Get this--there is no out-of-bounds. But don't worry about the rules, just watch the Crimson squad rack up victory after victory. Harvard advanced to the NCAA Finals in May before losing the championship, 7-6, to Penn State...
...Halberstam, author of such books as The Best and the Brightest and The Reckoning, this new work may be his most appealing, mainly because it is quirky and informal and the author leaves his moral fervor in the bat rack. He intersperses the season's important action with portraits of key personnel: the Yanks' Tommy Henrich, Jerry Coleman, Yogi Berra; the Sox's Bobby Doerr, Ellis Kinder, Johnny Pesky. While he does adequately by Boston, clearly his heart is in the Bronx. In his hagiography, the Yankees are a little more godlike. Perhaps they were...
...C.I.A. draw, however, is the French cuisine in the Escoffier Room. The prix fixe $40 dinner features such classics as poached Dover sole stuffed with artichokes and tomatoes, and roasted rack of lamb on ratatouille. The 90- seat restaurant is sometimes booked three months in advance and boasts a four-star rating from the Mobil Travel Guide. Over a Kir Royale aperitif, bemused diners can enjoy a seminar in progress. On view in the glassed-in kitchen, a dozen nervous young chefs in tall toques bump into one another as they peel, poach and broil their way through the evening...
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...whom scorned his client as a masochistic "beat freak." The who in this whodunit is known early in the story. Valin is more interested in precisely what happened and why, in how tenderness turned into a transaction and then to fatal abuse. The hustlers' barren backgrounds, the meat-rack bars where they work, the aging queens who shelter them, all are convincingly evoked in Stoner's impassioned journey of detection...