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Senior Brian Ralph, the 1997 Ivy League Player of the Year, is off the disabled list and will trot out to center field for his first game of the season. The Crimson (11-7, 3-1 Ivy) will have doubleheaders against Penn (7-13-1, 4-4) and Columbia (5-17, 2-6) today and tomorrow, respectively, in its first Ancient Eight home game s at D'Donnell Field...
...Eric Clapton played a benefit concert in New York City. It was a special performance, a homage to blues legends, and the songs on his playlist were by the likes of Elmore James and Willie Dixon. This annoyed at least a few audience members, who were expecting Clapton to trot out his hits. "Play some rock 'n' roll!" one man shouted. A couple of other people in the crowd got their coats and left early. They missed a great show. Buoyed by the blues, Clapton played with impressive confidence and sounded sturdier than he had in years...
...adjective he chose to describe Lowell was "diverse." Such careless and meaningless use of language--of public relations euphemisms, to be exact--indicates the monolithic commitment to diversity among intellectuals today. Unfortunately, the intellectuals commit themselves only to specious diversity, to diversity they can quantify easily and trot out to belligerent students, faculty members and, most importantly, donors. They care little for true diversity, diversity of the mind and the soul. This short-hand diversity appears most clearly in the way intellectuals now defend affirmative action...
...numb the public to talk of sex in the Oval Office, kept Starr on the defensive with hints that he was the leaker and laid out the script for other witnesses to follow. This week, when Jones' lawyers argue why their case should go forward, they are sure to trot out the names of all the women who can point to a pattern of misconduct by the President. But now, thanks to the front page of the Washington Post, each woman knows exactly what the President has admitted: how many nights he stayed at Shelia Lawrence's house or visited...
...spot to which we refer hailed what the toy megastore probably thinks is a visionary idea: Christmas-list registers for kids. So instead of having to ask little Johnny and Suzie what they want under the Christmas tree, all you have to do is trot over to the superstore and check the register. Perhaps this does make Christmas shopping for the kiddies a piece of fruitcake, but we think some-thing of the spirit of holiday gift-giving is lost in the process. After all, when we at Dartboard were wee tots eagerly awaiting Christmas morn, our biggest fear...