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...stirring rendition of the "Copper Country National Anthem" by the Tech band brought the 500 inspired Husky fans to their feet just before the third period face-off and the Tech icemen responded by tying the game on a couple of slap shots in the third period...
...night belonged to MacKenzie, who kept 39 out of 40 shots from entering Yale's net. It was only a Bob Goodenow slap shot at 13:31 of the final period with Harvard skating in its fifth minute of power play (Yale picked up three successive penalties, spaced just less than two minutes apart from each other) that prevented MacKenzie from getting the shutout...
...companies have come in for heavy criticism from Congress, which resounds with cries to roll back surging oil and gasoline prices, repeal special tax benefits that the oil companies get and slap on an excess-profits tax. A few Senators and Representatives are even talking seriously about wholly or partly nationalizing Exxon and other U.S. oil companies...
Networks-not to mention other news organizations-rarely pillory themselves in public. Don Hewitt, executive producer of 60 Minutes, reports no attempts by CBS executives to soften the intramural slap: "I've not felt any pressure or even heard from anyone at the network, although it's obvious that they knew that we were filming Fanning." (Asked on the show whether CBS was "buying" his opinion, Fanning says: "It just plain isn't true. In the first place, all the networks do it.") Reporter Mike Wallace offers some tart, on-the-air criticism of his network: "Ironically...
Still, Kafka: The World of Parable deserves all the audience it can get. The performance is uneven, it tends to make Kafka a little too slap-stick, but Sanders and Timm pull it off on a shoestring. Because Sander's principle of organization suggests more stream of consciousness than structure, it opens up Kafka's dramatic possibilities. There are many ways in which the play could have been built. As it is, this production hints at all of them. But Sander's and the Ensemble's greatest accomplishment is that theirs is not just a reading but what it purports...