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...saga of ROTC at Harvard continues. the latest installment in the bumpy relationship between the University and the military training program is a reprieve by the University that will allow Harvard students to participate through...
...Tonya and Nancy. Their contretemps is not only a living metaphor for tarnished ideals of sport but also a depressing reminder that a litigation-mad and bureaucracy-laden society has if anything diminished its means of extracting plain truth in timely fashion. Whatever the ultimate twist of their tortuous saga, it seems certain that the contest they both sought so ardently to win will unfold without decisive evidence of Harding's innocence or guilt. The satisfying simplicity of sport, with its winners and losers and tangible numbers and seemingly objective results in a world otherwise given to opinion and guesswork...
...chilly tale is still unfolding, but that hasn't stopped publishers from competing in an Olympian race to make quickie books -- and bucks -- from the saga of Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan. No fewer than six paperbacks have been zooming to press: four on the presumed heroine (sample title: The Kerrigan Courage) and two on the suspected villainess (Thin Ice). None have the cooperation of their subjects, and most will be in bookstores well before closing ceremonies in Lillehammer...
Coulson recounts another ignominious chapter inthe horse meat saga. Purveyors of horse meatdelivered shipments a few times a year, but their18-wheelers were too bulky to negotiate thestreets of Cambridge. "So they'd call me and saystreets of Cambridge. "So they'd call me and say'We're up at the packing house in Lynn.' So I'd goup in my car and watch this big trailer truckunloading all this horse meat--big barrels ofstuff rolling down the conveyor belt--and a coupleof small boxes marked 'Faculty Club...
...American population is to learn anything from the whole Bobbitt saga, let it be not that such events make good courtroom drama to watch on television, but that marital abuse occurs far too often in our society, The tragedy here is two-fold: it is the horror of a woman dismembering her husband coupled with the knowledge that she suffered from his physical abuse. Our efforts should be spent not promoting weenie tosses or slicer jokes, but working to ensure that incidents such as either of these do not occur again...