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This is a good week to catch the kind of lectures you've always meant to go to but never did because the names didn't ring enough bells to draw you away from whatever else you were doing. Only ocean freaks and hardcore liberal politicos will be drawn by honchos in their fields this week, but there are plenty more obscure luminaries (contradiction in terms?) to keep things interesting...
...name Northeastern has a detestable ring to it, like the name of some long forgotten curse for the Harvard track team. Yesterday the Northeastern whammy was in perfect working condition as the Harvard team came out on the short end of an 81-73 loss, after being shaven by a double-edge blade named Flora...
Plimpton is best known for his exploits on the football field and in the boxing ring as a "professional amateur." From these experiences Plimpton wrote commentaries about the role of sports in American society...
...words read better than they actually sound in the film, and unlike many of the movie's other aspects, the lyrics are not what you'd call accessible. But the musings of Baskin do ring true, and you suspect that if Baskin is not a native of the Southland, his experience with the L.A. scene has been both thorough and bittersweet...
Bells of all sorts will soon be ringing for Muhammad AH. Wedding chimes for Mr. I-Am-The-Greatest and ex-Beauty Queen Veronica Porche, 21, will sound in Los Angeles "some time in June, maybe the 10th," announced Ali last week. But the twice-wed champ seemed more concerned with bells in the ring. On May 16 he will defend his heavyweight title at Capital Centre in Landover, Md., against Spain's Alfredo Evangelista. "I think I'll get into the ring and knock him down, but I just don't know," he said with uncharacteristic...