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Emotion carried the Crimson (3-5, 1-4 Ivy)through two superb quarters against the unbeatenQuakers (9-0, 6-0). At the half, Harvard led20-10, and an upset appeared imminent. It wouldhave been a storybook end to Restic's illustriouscareer...
...Farewell My Concubine" should be part of your cinematic core curriculum. The co-winner of the Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or, "Farewell My Concubine" is a work that is both universal and undeniably Chinese, tracing the relationship of two men through fifty years of Chinese history. With superb acting (especially from star Leslie Cheung) and beautiful mainland China as its backdrop, the movie is an epic tale that somehow remains intensely personal. Less melodramatic than "The Joy Luck Club" and more realistic than "The Wedding Banquet," "Farewell My Concubine" provides the viewer with a glimpse into...
...thrilled," President Neil L. Rudenstine said yesterday. "It's a superb appointment...
...guidelines already on the books. Representative Edward Markey, who chairs the finance panel of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, is preparing a bill to tighten standards on mutual-fund management and advertising. "Mutual funds are a lot like the Philadelphia Phillies," Markey says. "Great organization, great starting pitching, superb hitting, but they need to address a few shortcomings in order to be perfect...
...talks have been a slog. The North Koreans, superb brinksmen, never budge until the last moment. They negotiate with that combination of self- righteousness and unblushing bad faith common among old-style communist regimes, violating commitments in order to sell the same concession two or three times. On the American side, a certain admiration has even developed for this doggedness. But the atomic clock is ticking. "I think both sides are getting tired of going over and over each tiny concession," says one source. "Now that we've gotten to know each other, gotten comfortable with each other and gotten...