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McDavitt notched a hat trick, which included the goal that put the Crimson in the lead for good as Harvard handed URI its first loss of the season...
Margaret Atwood's 10th novel should equal or surpass the popular appeal she achieved in The Handmaid's Tale (1985) while maintaining her consistently high literary achievements. English professors will relish the postmodern trick--a novel with a novel within a novel--that gives The Blind Assassin (Doubleday; 521 pages; $26) its title. The less theoretically inclined can simply kick back and marvel at Atwood's gripping tale, which stretches from World War I almost to the present moment. At the center are two sisters, Iris and Laura Chase, daughters of a wealthy Canadian manufacturer who is ruined during...
...stupidest reason for defensive political baseball is that the candidates are consciously talking to newspaper columnists and TV journalists, who in turn hunt only for their flaws in an effort to be clever and thus noticed. There's no trick in being clever and noticed; any deft young journalist can do it, and some--encumbered by fatal cuteness, disappointment or lack of dignity--never outgrow the impulse. Talking like Jackie Robinson, or like Ronald Reagan, our last sublimely corny President, takes more self-confidence and aggressive innocence but--provided that one means what one says--it pays...
...know that lactic acid is just one of a group of compounds, called hydroxy acids, that can reduce wrinkles. The trick is to get the right concentration. Too much and you burn through too many layers. Too little and there's no effect at all. Even modest amounts irritate the epidermis a little, causing it to swell, which has the benefit of filling out some of those furrows...
...song about womanizing - in the convention hall to keep up delegates' enthusiasm between speeches. "Obviously we're not using the original lyric," says Smith, who plans to rewrite the song with names of states instead of names of women. For Smith, equal parts entertainer and Democrat, that's the trick: Taking the same old tune, changing the words and hoping that it catches...