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Yale is but a shell of the team that beat Harvard last year and shared the Ivy title in 1999. Gone from last year’s squad are the top playmakers on offense and seven defensive starters...
Yale is but a shell of the team that beat Harvard last year and shared the Ivy title in 1999. Gone from last year’s squad are the top playmakers on offense and seven defensive starters...
...solitary child--her father distant, her severe mother dead--Amelie amused herself with hand puppets; her playmates are things. Now grown-up, a waitress, she seeks sensuous, not sensual, pleasures: cracking the shell of a creme brulee, skipping stones in the local canal. Her life changes on Aug. 31, 1997, with the news of Princess Diana's death. In surprise she drops a perfume stopper, which rolls toward the wall; behind a loose brick she discovers something else, a boy's prized chest of trinkets, 40 years old. She resolves to find out who the owner is. She gets...
...could be the end of an era. Than again, it could also be just the impetus George Steinbrenner needs to shell out even more cash to sign Jason Giambi and Johnny Damon away from the A’s and Moises Alou from the Astros, thereby extending the Yankees’ reign for another five years. But if I had to bet, I’d pick the first scenario, especially given the unpredictability of the MLB regular season, not to mention the three rounds of postseason play that exist with the wild-card...
...Japanese father poses his wife and kid in front of the rubble of WTC Building 7, the nearest devastated building to Century 21. It is now eight stories of molten, molded metal. Twisted beams project from the seventh floor like a scarecrow ghoul, its head soldered to the shell of the shard. Two decades ago, some government arts agency would have paid Richard Serra a bundle to devise and execute this idea. Even now, it has a weird... not beauty, but aleatory artfulness. In the current issue of a newsweekly (but not in THE newsweekly), the architect Bart Voorsanger says...