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...only home competition in the fall, number-11 Mike Shyjan will lead the Crimson in singles and doubles. In the doubles matches, though, the junior will play with Derek Brown and not his usual partner, Mike Zimmerman, with whom he is ranked fifth nationally. Zimmerman, recovering from a slight injury, will play number-two singles for the Crimson but will forego any doubles action...
...Balanchine has taken on a strange, ectoplasmic life in the pages of other people's books, most of them written by his former dancers at New York City Ballet. One, Gelsey Kirkland's angry, vengeful Dancing on My Grave (1986), made the best-seller lists. This year brings a slight but more genial coda from Kirkland and the memoir the dance world has been waiting for, from Mr. B.'s last muse, Suzanne Farrell...
Smoking may be annoying, but when was the last time you heard of anyone being pushed down the stairs by someone with a violent nicotine rush? Non-smokers may be at slight health risk from passive smoking, but we are certainly all at risk from the effects of alcohol abuse--immediate, violent effects...
Although women's groups have announced their opposition to Souter for his refusal to answer specific questions about abortion rights, the unassuming, reclusive New Englander seems to have disarmed most of his committee foes. In a baritone voice, the strength of which belies his slight physique and reticent demeanor, Souter movingly deflected insinuations that he is a legal automaton with little regard for the human condition. As a trial judge, he said, "I learned two lessons: one, some human life is going to be changed in some way by what we do . . . and two, therefore, we had better use every...
...couple of years ago, I started to use a true story about Mother Teresa to illustrate how all New Yorkers, living in what I believe could be considered a rather challenging environment, find themselves trying to get a little edge. Around 1987, Mayor Koch was briefly hospitalized with a slight stroke, and a few days later he got a surprise visit from Mother Teresa, who happened to be in town to establish a hospice. She told him he had been in her prayers, and he took the occasion to say that New York was grateful for her presence and that...