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Throughout the game, a core group of supporters kept up a steady stream of chants and cheers, rooting on the Crimson at every opportunity. As the game progressed, the fans also acted as Harvard Coach Tim Wheaton's megaphone, echoing his pleas for fouls and yellow cards against George Mason...
DIED. LEON FORREST, 60, ambitious novelist whose stream-of-consciousness works explored black history; of cancer; in Evanston, Ill. Forrest traversed generations to examine slavery in The Bloodworth Orphans; in his masterwork, Divine Days, he devoted 1,138 pages to a week on Chicago's South Side...
...remembrances of Enda, fueled by the discovery of his autobiographical video-tapes, assume a nasty edge. His emotional distance from his offspring and his long-ago affair still haunt his family. Catherine secretly informs the guests at Enda's funeral that the family would prefer privacy to the customary stream of visitors and after the funeral the tense family, waiting for mourners who've gone pubbing with Godot, is left alone with its festering resentments...
...there is nothing unusual about an El Nino. It is a perfectly normal cycle of Pacific waters' warming every two to seven years, altering jet-stream flows and cloud formation. This changes the weather over most of the globe in fairly predictable, entirely natural ways. It alternates with the La Nina cycle, which cools the waters and creates mostly contrary effects. It's been going on, as far as we can tell, for millennia...
...that Willman, 53, is a compulsive gambler who lost so much money at Station Casino that to protect herself, she arranged to be legally barred from entering the riverboat and taken off its mailing lists. In spite of these efforts, the casino continues to send her a steady stream of solicitations--even though it is now exhorting her to commit an act of criminal trespass. "The mailings just keep on coming," she says. She was told by the management of Station Casino that its computerized database would not, for some unfathomable reason, allow her name to be deleted. Call...