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STUDENTS from other universities of no small renown can simply volunteer to write for the paper, to take pictures for the yearbook, to give tours of the campus. But here, everything is a comp. What does "comp" mean, one may quite reasonably ask. "Competition?" No, heaven forbid, not "competition," the comp directors at The Crimson assured us. Not competition but merely "competence." You have to demonstrate that you're friendly enough to give a tour, for instance, or persistent enough to be a journalist...
...frenetic production has hardly destroyed her reputation; she is a literary figure of considerable clout, she holds a tenured professorship at Princeton University, and every fall her name is rumored to be on the short list for the Nobel Prize. But there is something of the sideshow about her renown among the general reading public; she is widely recognized as the woman who turns out all those books, less often as the author of a single, unforgettable narrative. Thanks to her own energy, nothing she has written has ever been long-awaited...
Thanks to its renown as the birthplace of Jesus Christ, Bethlehem has long since ceased to be the "little town" described in the popular carol. It is instead a city whose 35,000 residents have traditionally been joined by so many pilgrims and tourists that there is often no room in the inns. But the boom and bustle came to a rather sudden halt in December 1987, when the intifadeh arose among the Arabs in Israel's occupied territories. Last Christmas only 5,000 visitors -- half the normal turnout -- attended Bethlehem's elaborate holiday observance. In the year since then...
This month, as the 1988 season opens and new General Director Lotfi Mansouri takes command, the road back begins. During his tenure, Adler had transformed ! the San Francisco Opera from a regional ensemble devoted largely to Italian opera into an international powerhouse that won renown by presenting major works, like Strauss's Die Frau ohne Schatten, for the first time in the U.S., and by offering major American opera debuts to Leontyne Price, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Sir Georg Solti. While never equaling New York City's Metropolitan Opera in either budget (currently $23.7 million vs. $88 million) or length...
...professional baseball and football players of fortune and renown are inclined to minimize their natural talent, preferring to have it said they got the most out of a modest allotment. It's generally not true. A good number, maybe even a majority, are doing things that basically come very easy to them. Once, in an extraordinary fit of conscience -- just for an instant -- the basketball star Elvin Hayes actually refused his paycheck out of a sense that he hadn't earned it. After nearly decapitating Jack Nicklaus during a pro-am tournament, a wretched amateur golfer wondered with a sigh...