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...Tame, however, was not how Harvard played last night. Determined is the only word that would accurately describe the game and the team attitude...
Chechens have launched more than 1,000 attacks since the peace treaty was signed, and an estimated 60,000 Russian troops have responded with artillery barrages and air raids against villages throughout the republic. The bomb attacks in Grozny came in response to the endorsement by Zavgayev and his tame parliament of a Russian plan for elections Dec. 17 for a new Chechen leader. For the Chechens, the election plan is merely an attempt to give a gloss of democratic legitimacy to Moscow's rule. "No election will be held until the last Russian invader has left," declares a spokesman...
Many of these trips are tame, straightforward introductions to Harvard. Other visits include rowdy trips to local bars, final clubs and parties. On each trip, recruits have to negotiate the challenges of a weekend away on a campus full of eccentrics...
Recruiting visits in some other sports--especially football--are not nearly so tame. Football players recall stories about alcohol binges involving the now-closed D.U. finals club, the Crimson Sports Grille and Mather House parties...
...their place in rock history, and I want to hear them anytime. But where was the representation of rock right now? Bon Jovi does not represent rock right now, O.K.?" And he expresses scorn for rockers he sees as imitations: "Let's face it, Alanis Morissette is like a tame Courtney Love [a former girlfriend of Corgan's who now heads the punk band Hole]. What is Alanis Morissette being held up as? This feministic step forward. The fact is, it's people like Courtney and Kat Bjelland [of Babes in Toyland] who carved out that road. We should...