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...Tis woman's whole existence. -Lord Byron, Don Juan...
...Tis the season to name captains, so earlier this week the Harvard icemen selected junior forward Bill Horton (5, right) as the team's 1976-77 ice general...
...Tis the season to be-among other things-greedy. From private and federal land as well as commercial lots, untold numbers of Christmas trees are stolen every year for resale. One of the most ambitious schemes to date was uncovered last month in Colorado. Armed with forged permits and maps, six men conned a group of Denver tree distributors into bankrolling them by showing them seven sample trees. The group then went off to remote slopes and, with a crew of ten, buzz-sawed 2,000 more trees, that would probably have brought a total of $14,000. A neighbor...
Effective too is Leontes's occasional facial tic, and the moment when, as he says, "'Tis Polixenes has made thee swell thus," he violently grabs Hermione's burgeoning belly. After the Delphic oracle eventually proclaims Leontes a "jealous tyrant" and the others blameless, this Leontes even pulls out a dagger to stab himself and has to be restrained (incidentally, in the source from which Shakespeare took the story, the king does commit suicide...
Radcliffe's lacrosse squad should petition to play two first halves or else think of some other way to avoid its habitual second-half fold. Tis sad but true that yet another excellent first half effort turned up naught in the end result, as a traditionally strong UNH team poured it on in the final stanza to walk away with...