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Harvard has the opportunity to play spoiler in its game against Brown Saturday at Soldiers Field. The Bruins (4-1 Ivy League) need only beat Harvard (0-2-2 Ivy) to win at least a share of the Ivy crown for the first time since 1984. But if Harvard sends Brown home with a loss, Pennsylvania--also 4-1 in the league--may take the crown for the second straight year...
...completed this romance, perhaps Catherine would have had more than two dimensions. The first is what Edmund Wilson called "the all- too-perfect felicity of a youthful erotic dream." The second hinges on the age-old view of woman as the cause of original sin. Catherine is a spoiler whose taste in forbidden fruit threatens the private Eden of David's art. It is the place where he struggles with his own lost innocence...
...first sustained applause came as Jackson vowed not to be a spoiler in the coming campaign. "There is a time to compete and a time to cooperate," he said. Then, in muted tones, he summed up his conduct as a candidate: "If in my high moments, I have done some good, offered some service, shed some light, healed some wounds, rekindled some hope ... or in any way ... helped somebody, then this campaign has not been in vain." Next he made a confession: "If in my low moments, in word, deed or attitude, through some error of temper, taste or tone...
That fear probably is exaggerated. Jackson sloughs it off as "negative hype and speculation" by the media. Says he: "I am not going to tear up the Democratic Party." He vows to be a "healer," not a "spoiler." Last week he called on D.N.C. Chairman Charles Manatt, and to Manatt's huge relief promised that he would not bolt the party at the convention. He never intended to, he says. The idea of a walkout was "Manatt's magnificent obsession." It is in Jackson's interest to compromise, and he knows it. If he wants...
...locked in an angry "yes-I-did, no-you-didn't" clinch until Jesse Jackson, who had skillfully been playing both spoiler and referee, stepped in. He clucked that the quarrel would be called so much "rat-a-tat-tat" and dismissed it as a "kinship struggle" between two men "going in the same direction...