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...game was simply the Crimson's best yet this season. Against the toughest defensive line it will face, Harvard's offense fought furiously, allowing for some solid running and a few wise passing decisions. Against one of the largest offensive lines it will face, the Crimson's defense put forth one of its best efforts of the last two seasons. And everywhere is between--namely, the offensive and defensive special teams, the squad was strikingly sharp--breaking some long runs and making abrupt stops...
...campaign against Republican entrepreneur W. Mitt Romney, Kennedy, a 32-year incumbent, is currently facing what many observers are calling the toughest race of his life...
...Even in the toughest times I never doubted that this is what I would do," Joel said. "I think there are some people who are artists and know they are, and that's what pulls you through. If it worries you too much, maybe you shouldn't pursue...
Reading crime novels in mixed company, now that some of the toughest and raunchiest fictional cops, detectives and villains are women, has become a delicate exercise in sexual politics. We can imagine Spenser, Robert B. Parker's tough-guy hero, paging through a thriller one evening, log fire burning and six-pack of Sam Adams at the ready, when his girlfriend Susan Silverman senses trouble. She speaks: "You're looking all choked up and strange, Slugger." He explains sheepishly that he is reading a detective story. "Yes ... ?" "Well, so there's this wounded guy, and suddenly the detective whips...
...black belts were awarded for writing short stories, Canada's Alice Munro would have one with bells on. Open Secrets (Knopf; 294 pages; $23) is another stunning victory over one of the toughest of literary forms. The eight stories in this volume are about women uneasily balanced between their conventional past and a present that tips them in new and strange directions...