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...scan of the ECAC standings (see box) reveals other interesting trends. Two of Harvard's three wins have come against the worst two teams in the league, Maine (0-3) and Dartmouth (0-2). By contrast, Yale has handed Colgate and Clarkson their only losses, and beat a St. Lawrence team Saturday night that had upset Boston College the evening before. However, it is December, and Yale is still Yale--a team that hasn't finished better than seventh since...
Within a couple of months, SRI's thoughts on Langmuir Blodgett films will probably be discussed in Scan, a tightly written bimonthly summary of the SRI meetings. Some 475 U.S. and foreign corporations pay $12,000 yearly to subscribe to SRI's business intelligence program and to receive the eight-page Scan reports. The next issue of the pamphlet is also likely to contain articles on competition from Japan, the economic and social implications of the "information society," and the growing public antagonism about violent crimes by youth...
...many people in the stands are watching the game. The day is warm, the beer cool, and the football game seems almost incidental, some elaborate dance removed from the heart of the Soldier's Field party. Most people seem content to scan the stands, turning their attention to the field only in response to the occasional collective "ahhhhs" of the minority of true fans. The crowd's reaction to a successful Multiflex play begins faintly and only achieves its maximum volume long after the play has been completed, when the attention of the party has finally been captured and several...
...Washington's 39th successor to the presidency, the prudent but unromantic federal agents forced the play-acting colonial troops to surrender all but a few of their 50 cannons, temporarily confiscated their flints and black powder and subjected each make-believe soldier to a metal detector's scan. No matter: the glory of re-created victory was undimmed. Over the sunny Virginia meadows marched 2,200 ersatz Revolutionaries. There were French infantry of the Royal Deux-Ponts Regiment in their gleaming white uniforms; authentically ragtag colonials, including the Barnstable Militia of Cape Cod, some in burlap and bandages...
...because he is lazy about his columns. Within his self-imposed parameters, he succeeds more often than not. But like most writing composed between a late lunch and a 5 p.m. Capitol Hill reception, his merits little more than a quick read. Skim until you find the punch-line, scan the letters to the editor for someone you know and then chuck the whole thing into the garbage. Has anyone ever cut out and saved more than one Buchwald column...