Word: touche
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Almost as perfect at No. 2, junior John Doran regained his winning touch with a quick 6-1, 6-1 victory. Doran had won 13 straight matches in dual-meet play before losing last weekend against Yale...
...students have full access to all of Harvard's libraries, including those which are designed primarily for undergraduates (namely Lamont). Should we in turn stand at the entracce to all our favorite haunts and turn away "foreigners" a la Adams during interhouse (the gong would be a nice touch...
...first one to be: "a good weekend movie." To be a big success, a movie need only work for a few weekends. It doesn't need mythic meaning; remember that for years, the all-time box-office champ was The Sound of Music. But the Star Wars saga does touch a deeper chord. "George created a transgenerational phenomenon that's still inexplicable," says Williams. "Maybe it's in the rattling of our collective memory...
MOYERS: Wendy Doniger, who is a scholar of mythology at the University of Chicago, says that myths are important because they remind us that our lives are real and our lives are not real. We have these bodies, which we can touch, but we also have within us this omnipotent magical world of thought...
...showed them.' Our guys landed in a driving rainstorm. We're the key ingredient in the bad weather over there." Pilots are delighted with their mount. Says one: "We don't worry about threats [such as plane-killing missiles], because the plane keeps you safe." In a low-tech touch, however, the Air Force phones all the pilots' wives the minute the planes finish over their targets, letting them know their husbands are en route back to their heartland homes...