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...Awful? Can't Win?: It was another black-and-blue week for the Ivy League, which was swept in interconference play again. Columbia was shellacked by Lafayette, Yale was clobbered by Colgate, Dartmouth was held off by Holy Cross, and Penn was nipped by Lehigh on a fourth-quarter score...
...quite have been another Roots, but the TV event that swept the country last week was no less stirring. The Civil War, Ken Burns' beautifully crafted series, got virtually unanimous raves from the critics before it was telecast. Even so, few expected that an audience of great size would sit still for the 12-hour, five-night history lesson -- a lesson, moreover, with almost no film footage to enliven it, no Hollywood gimmicks to romanticize it and no network publicity machine to hype...
...Mathers is part of a re-creation, edging back toward an open and exhilarating country that was swept away by bad government policy and greed. Homesteading was a tragedy in most of the plains, pitting small farmers against the relentless weather. It was no contest. But then the government compounded the problem -- and still does -- by offering crop subsidies, and those who broke the soil became manacled to a marginal existence. Some still hang on, but time runs against them...
...head of Rutgers University's urban-studies department, is a land planner who has poked his way down the neglected and withering trails of the plains for 20 years, wondering if a new frontier is struggling to be born. His wife Debora is a graduate student in geography. They swept up the entire region, from Texas to Montana, in their analysis. Their language was apocalyptic ("largest, longest-running agricultural and environmental miscalculation in the nation's history"), their images devastating ("dreams, drought and dust") and their predictions frightening ("a wasteland, an American empty quarter...
...with the customer right from the beginning," says Dave Illingworth, general manager of Lexus in the U.S., which picked up the undisclosed cost of the recall operation. That assiduous concern has paid off in spectacular fashion: from a cold start one year ago, Toyota's luxury division in July swept past both Mercedes-Benz and BMW in the vital U.S. auto market. Although Mercedes retook the lead during August, the Lexus performance sent shock waves through the global auto industry. BMW and Mercedes have seen their U.S. sales dip 29% and 19%, respectively, over the past three years...