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Needing just a tie in its season finale against a struggling Brown squad, the Crimson appeared to have its first league title in six years wrapped up. Instead, the Bears pushed Harvard around for most of the 90 minutes in the would-be clincher, handing the Crimson its most lopsided loss of the year...
...When he's not being offensively flippant, Vidal waxes indignant, not at the hijackers, but at the American government. "There have been ominous signs," he writes, "that our fragile liberties have been dramatically at risk since the 1970s when the white-shirt-blue-suit-discreet-tie FBI reinvented itself from a corps of 'generalists,' trained in law and accounting, into a confrontational 'Special Weapons and Tactics' (aka SWAT) Green Beret-style army of warriors who like to dress up in camouflage or black ninja clothing and, depending on the caper, ski masks." Note the penultimate noun in that sentence...
...heard many alumnae say this: it was more after we left Harvard that the Radcliffe tie became meaningful and important,” says Oliver, who serves as president of Chicago’s Radcliffe Club...
...last week in Ghana. The unlikely pair will travel through South Africa, Uganda and Ethiopia. O'Neill played the straight man; Bono did comic relief. O'Neill drilled vendors on their moneymaking to figure out how U.S. aid might help, while Bono strode up to a merchant selling psychedelic tie-dyed textiles and asked, "Have you ever heard of Jerry Garcia?" By the time the trip ends, the two may have a pilot for a new reality show: Survivor meets Blind Date...
...fictional heroine of the Tomb Raider video-game series, played by Angelina Jolie in last summer's blockbuster film Lara Croft Tomb Raider. An explorer with formidable combat skills and a chest you could rest a Ming vase on, Croft could make money for her handlers through consumer-product tie-ins, publishing deals and television. Best of all, she'll never ask for a break from Hollywood to take one of those low-paying theater gigs. Gangs Take France...