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...Think about it. It would be the most bizarre horror show in history. As Alex Cockburn, in a frenzy of anticipation (some people do appreciate black comedy), put it, "How I yearn for it! To watch Newt Gingrich...pacing the battlements of moral rectitude will be as heady a tonic as was the French Revolution to young Wordsworth. Bliss it is in this dawn to be alive! It could be as great a carnival of hypocrisy as this nation has ever seen...
After one-goal losses to top-20 opponents Penn State and Hartford this week, No. 15 Harvard (1-2) will get a nice dose of perennial Ivy League doormat Columbia tomorrow at 11 a.m. The Lions may be the tonic for a Crimson offense that has mustered only one goal in its last two contests after a season-opening 3-0 victory over New Hampshire...
...veterans, the teen churlishness has been like a tonic. Lindsay Davenport, who most recently beat Hingis at the Acura in Los Angeles in early August, has taken three tournaments in a row this summer. "She's playing the best tennis by far at the moment," says Martina Navratilova. The self-deprecating Californian has never sought the spotlight and has suffered from criticism of her weight. Now, she's 25 lbs. lighter and many times fitter. Two weeks ago, she was sitting down for a makeover and being filmed by a network TV show. Davenport, 22, says she's not "looking...
...break up the Prince's marriage to Diana, offered to exit. But Charles encouraged her to stay; Wills was looking forward to an introduction. When the teenager arrived, the threesome spent half an hour sipping tea and soft drinks. After Wills left, Parker Bowles reportedly asked for a vodka tonic to calm her nerves. The encounter went smoothly though, and the young Prince has since sat down with Parker Bowles twice, once alone for tea and later for lunch with his father. If he is amenable, Wills' brother Harry, 13, might soon meet Parker Bowles...
...while Gillian Anderson (as Mulder's skeptical partner Scully) radiates a '40s-style pensiveness that alchemizes glum into glam. The characters' devotion to each other--a caring that stops tantalizingly short of sexuality--constitutes one of the great unconsummated marriages in popular fiction. And their wondrous solemnity is a tonic in this age of facetiousness...