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...Long Day's Journey Into Night" does have a touch of the "take your medicine" about it. Daniels had the sense not to meddle too much with the play or its conventional performance style, to let it stretch out to its own onerous length of three hours and shoulder its own inexplicable burden of a housemaid's scattered cameos and her inevitably painful Irish accent. The play stands by itself, an unblinking testament to all-American dysfunction at the very site, the vacation home, where family togetherness is supposed to be at its best. Fortunately for us, this timeworn standard...
There are two seconds left on the game clock, and college football's national championship is on the line. Nervous fans watching on television across the country hold their breath as the kicker readies himself for a 55-yd. field-goal attempt. They look over his shoulder as he peers between the goalposts, deep into the recesses of...a Ruffles potato-chip...
...going to turn out--and having as your most famous and powerful resident someone who's known for being a little bit wonky. I mean, Oprah Winfrey's not absolutely everybody's cup of tea either. And sure, deep-dish Chicago pizza may sound more like big-shoulder food, or even big-gut food, than something like, well, let's say, latte, but maybe we should discuss relative incidence of stomach distress for a while, particularly if we're talking pepperoni...
During the nine-game drought, injuries plagued the seniors, who had been Harvard's main offensive and defensive weapons; Konik and defensive stalwart Pete McLaughlin were sidelined after the infamous car crash the night before the first Beanpot game, while Holmes and Nielsen battled nagging leg and shoulder injuries...
That search deepened when he went overseas in 1992 to cover South Africa's march to democracy. Taylor acquired, among other things, a bullet in his shoulder during a shoot-out near Soweto, as well as a profound sense of the gap between how democracy is viewed in a country that is enchanted by its promise and one that is disgusted by its processes. "Part of the reason we've built up a $5 trillion deficit over the past 15 years is that we don't trust our politicians," he says. "Therefore, our politicians don't have the political freedom...