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...allowed to slip through the cracks--to hand in a problem set you don't understand and just move on," he says...
...other than that, the games are xerox copies of each other. In the first half, Harvard always plays pretty well--whether building a lead or crafting a respectable nine-point deficit to Penn. And in the second half, the Crimson always seems to watch a potential victory slip away...
...Lake of the Woods by Tim O'Brien (Houghton Mifflin). A boyish politician, spooked by an election defeat and by undead memories of Vietnam, retreats to a Minnesota lake to sort things out. He and his wife, who has spooks of her own, slip separately through the trapdoors of the mind into the subterranean world where morality, evil and reality itself are shifting phantoms. O'Brien, who served in Vietnam and in 1979 won the National Book Award for Going After Cacciato, once more displays his enormous talent...
...chilling winds of New-foundland may howl outside the St. Vincent orphanage, the setting of director John N. Smith's compelling new film "The Boys of St. Vincent," but the territory inside the cloistered stone walls provides no safe haven either. The black-clad priests of St. Vincent slip like sinister, dark shadows through the looming corridors, creating a world of terror for the young boys entrusted to their churchly protection. The orphanage is a realm of the wicked, built not only upon layers of deceitful whispers and abuse of religious power, but also upon the sadistic sexual molestation...
Well, perhaps Levin should take a better look at Mrs. Wheeler's letter applauding Yale's commitment. She let it slip that "twice as many" students applied for admission to Yale's Directed Studies Program as were admitted...