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...fifth, Abeles ended the deadlock with a crisp solo blast out of Niemand-Robinson field. That was all the scoring Harvard would need, as Thoke held the Big Red hitless through the duration of the game, which was cut short by rain in the sixth inning...

Author: By David R. De remer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard-Cornell: Five Years of Great Ivy Softball | 5/4/2001 | See Source »

...hope not. Like Anne Robinson of "Weakest Link" fame, some celebs are much more fascinating when they're nasty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Seven Veils of Steve Jobs | 5/2/2001 | See Source »

...prizefights on black-and-white television, the boxing-ring bell orchestrated into the jingle... "To LOOK sharp DING/ ev'ry time you shave!" I cherish a hazy recollection, the haze being snow on the television set, perhaps, and the bluish cigarette smoke layered above the ring - of Sugar Ray Robinson throwing the most beautiful punch ever thrown, a straight jab, pure lightning that sent his man into another dimension, as if used boxers and used blades alike would spin in black space forever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Through the Looking-Glass With a Safety Razor | 4/26/2001 | See Source »

...Levin, Robinson professor of the humanities and head tutor of the music department, received a call early Saturday morning from Symphony Hall asking him to perform the same...

Author: By Anthony Cheung, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Music Professor Swings With BSO for a Weekend | 4/25/2001 | See Source »

Reality-show hosts are half devil, half angel, tempter and comforter. (Think Jeff Probst offering starving Survivors extra vittles in exchange for their tent.) Not so Anne Robinson of The Weakest Link (NBC, Mondays, 8 p.m. E.T.), a British import game show with a Survivor twist: players vote each other off. The dour, sarcastic host dismisses losers with a curt "You are the weakest link. Goodbye." (Thanks to NBC's weeks-long ad blitz, it may be the first TV catchphrase Americans have got sick of before its show even aired). But there's an integrity to her evil-Regis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Virtuous Reality | 4/23/2001 | See Source »

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