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Harvard's performance indicates the booters are a genuine threat as a spoiler in the Ivies this season. Outplaying the class of the league for one half is no small accomplishment, and the booters still have two tough matches with non-Ivy opponents to smooth over the rough spots...
...Smooth of pen, wicked of wit, and controversial of strip, Pulitzer-Prizewinning Cartoonist Garry Trudeau has skewered politics and society for twelve years. And there lies the trouble. After guiding the lives of such outspoken, '60s-scarred characters as Joanie Caucus, B.D., Uncle Duke, and his own alter ego, Michael J. Doonesbury, through some 4,300 cartoon strips, Trudeau, 34, thinks it is time to refill the inkwell. "I need a breather," he confesses. "Investigative cartooning is a young man's game." Though the cartoonist will be off from the beginning of next year through the fall...
PERHAPS IT WAS the provocative tilt of her head, or the perfect pouting lips. Her lovely oval eyes were large and not quite innocent. Smooth skin, smooth, elegant neck, all framed by soft auburn hair. Something--no, actually everything--about Catherine Oxenberg made a guy gulp for air or punch his roommate in frustration...
...will. But it was never supposed to work out so bluntly. U.S. prisons were to be the ultimate social experiment, where lapidaries of the soul would smooth and polish criminals. Under what conditions? Inside locked catacombs, filled to overflowing with inmates wrenched from their families for years, all overseen by men with searchlights and rifles. The contradiction was ignored for 200 years, partly out of earnestness and hope, but eventually because of a squeamish hypocrisy, a refusal to admit that imprisonment is any society's darkest chore...
...guidelines provide for sentences as long as those ordinarily given in the past. A one-year stayed sentence for first-offense marijuana possession, 27 years for a second-degree murderer with a string of earlier felony convictions. Other jurisdictions will temper justice with less mercy. Jerdell White, 36, a smooth-talking father of five, had been to prison in Texas twice before, for burglary and marijuana convictions. He was convicted in Dallas in 1978 of possessing a sawed-off shotgun, and given a life term. In Minnesota, White would already be free...