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Clever broke his own school record in the javelin at Heps, where he threw 228'6 to win. The second-closest thrower in school history is over 15 feet behind. He has been resting his shoulder injury and has not thrown all-out for much of the season, but he will be able to put forth his best effort at NCAAs...
...writes, her question was, "Why are so many men so disturbed by the prospect of women's independence?" But in the end, she says, what compelled her was why men--like the feminists before them--were not choosing to come together and rebel against the society that had thrown them into this crisis. For though her subjects tend to rail against "feminazis," women are not the true culprits, she believes. Men--just like women, in fact--are victims of a competitive, consumerist, "ornamentalist" system that strips men of their sense of belonging and their ability to nurture and be nurtured...
...small causative relationship with normal "intelligence." Intelligence has never been successfully defined or measured, unless one refers to the highly specialized, arbitrary, narrowly defined and largely learned skills measured by American-designed IQ tests. (Where, for example, are skills in second-language acquisition or the physics of a thrown object, both essential skills in our history?) Why would genetic intelligence have evolved strictly along the lines of IQ tests? Since most human family lines have become literate only in this century, how can we argue that literate tests provide a fair measure of evolved skills? MARK NATHAN COHEN Distinguished Teaching...
...gents meeting in a hospital as they await the death of their wives. The season premiere of Masterpiece Theatre can be poignant, yes, but just as often it's sly and funny, as Albert Finney, playing a randy former R.A.F. pilot, and Tom Courtenay, a fastidious retired milkman, are thrown into a sort of Odd Couple living arrangement. When Finney sets his sights on a chic divorce (Joanna Lumley, of Absolutely Fabulous), the results are delightfully unpredictable. And the richly nuanced performances are altogether superb...
...problem, however, is that this real Vann is never established. All we can know of him must be salvaged from the heaps of inner monologue and inexplicable behavior that the creators have thrown in as unnecessary complication. Sweet Vann is nothing more than a muddle of ambiguous symbolism and cryptic hallucinations--supposed fodder for post-movie conversation and analysis...