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...tension evaporated, and the librarians tucked into lunch, with wine. Healy, 67, is a reassuring presence, a tall man with a slight, accommodating stoop, ruddy coloring and blunt features. In mufti -- which he always wears at the library -- he could pass for a football coach or, with more pronounced sartorial accents, an aging sportswriter. He can discuss old movies or baseball or Virgil. He is, in fact, wildly articulate but manages to wear that gaudy mantle easily, without any of William F. Buckley Jr.'s arcane showboating...
...fact, there is a slight shift in library priorities. During the '80s the emphasis was on restoration. Gregorian liked to call the main building the "people's palace"; the library became perhaps the city's most fashionable benefit cause. But, reflecting the Bush era, the new buzz word is education, the province of the branches. "Essentially, we serve grammar school and junior high kids," says Healy, "and the agenda is not what you read but that you read...
There is more than a slight whiff of jailhouse self-pity: Joe loves Kitty, goes to the lockup, survives the schemes of bad villains with the help of good villains, and gets out to find true-blue Kitty and the child he has never seen waiting for him. The best of the book is Morgan's wildly reinvented con lingo. His ear fails him occasionally, when he uses lace-curtain language -- "caparisoned," "implacable mien" -- that some editor should have yanked from the manuscript with tongs. But at other times he's cooking: "Saturday night movies in the Gym were...
Against Princeton, the Crimson proved that it is worthy of NCAA postseason play. Sophomore Mike Zimmerman started things off in fine fashion by shellacking Andy Weiss, 6-1, 6-1. Zimmerman's match was the only one completed outside, as a slight drizzle forced the two teams to move the action indoors...
Dangerous weather conditions Saturday morning forced the race to be postponed until 6 p.m., when the Black and White JV took advantage of a slight tailwind to leave its Terrier counterpart 13 seconds behind...