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...trend among new shows to package a little educational value and, indeed, to use school as a significant backdrop. Voyagers!-exclamation marks appear to be a la mode this year-even ends with a plug to send the youngsters out to the library, where they can get the full scoop on some of the history the show has skimmed. A sort of hybrid of You Are There and the film Time Bandits, Voyagers! (NBC, Sunday, 7-8 p.m.) features Jon-Erik Hexum as a pilgrim from the future who crash-lands in the apartment of a lonely city boy (Meeno...
Harvard didn't play poorly in its opener against the Quakers, a very good team. Penn's 15-8, 15-9 victory resulted from sparkling shot placement and an assortment of off-speed dink shots. Most of the time, the Crimson just couldn't get to the half to scoop it up before it hit the floor...
...those who ridicule this friend of mine are equally persistent in their own convictions. If Sally can't have her scoop of Cahaly's mintoreo with M&Ms on top, or if Baskin Robbins is out of Sam's Jamoca Almond Fudge, their ice cream runs are immediately aborted Harvard students see ice cream as they see just about everything something to take a stand on. A harmless discussion of ice cream penchants can quickly become an irresolvable quagmire...
...wore on, the sounds of violence from the camps became more sporadic. In the afternoon, the militiamen began covering up their handiwork. Around 3 p.m., a European diplomat saw a bulldozer backing down a side street of Shatila. Its scoop was filled with bodies...
...There is a witty tribute to groupies called "Ballet Alert," about the New York telephone service that tells fans of last-minute program and cast switches. The service, run by a voluble woman named Carmel Capehart, depends on information from inner circles of ballet lovers. Capehart's biggest scoop: "Baryshnikov's debut in Union Jack [in 1979 with N.Y.C.B.] He did it twice in one day without telling anybody. If we hadn't caught wind of it, nobody would have been there but the audience...