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Harvard will use this weekend's tournament as a tune-up for the season-ending Ivy League championships, which it hosts on November...
...where 30 to 40 bishops can review what he calls "problem sections." Without such surgery, opponents imply, the new Mass may fail to win the necessary approval from the bishops conferences in English-speaking nations -- and the Vatican, which must also give its blessing. Mahony's conservatism is in tune with headquarters, and Rome would doubtless be relieved if he and his allies succeed in their resistance. "These gender-sensitive issues always seem to start in the U.S., but the U.S. does not represent the entire church," says a Vatican official -- a view that may say more about the masculine...
Maybe folk had to age a little to seem fresh again. Certainly everyone on the Garden stage wore his years well, but the music -- in the concert and on all these new records -- sounds particularly pertinent. The gifted Loudon Wainright III lays down a raucous, respectful tune called Talking New Bob Dylan on his fine album called History (Charisma). "You keep right on changin' like you always do," he sings to Dylan, "and what's best is the old stuff still all sounds new." The thought could stand for the classic material on Good as I Been...
...should not be hard to pronounce; these days it is hard to avoid. Rush (friend and foe alike are on a first-name basis) talks about political and social issues for 15 hours a week, and 13 million listeners tune in on 529 radio stations. He writes a book of his opinions -- a $22 souvenir program, really, of the radio show -- and it sits for weeks atop the New York Times best-seller list; with 1.1 million copies in print a month after its publication date, The Way Things Ought to Be is the hottest hard-cover nonfiction title since...
Watch these statesmen in motley, clowns on the stump, and Limbaugh's mud track can look like the high road. He meets his own challenge -- to inform and entertain -- and those who don't get it are always free to tune out. But even some righteous liberals are closet Rushophiles, because the man is so good at what he does. And knows it. And tells you, in a voice whose every syllable bespeaks a 25-year apprenticeship in radio oratory, without fear of repetition or contradiction. If vainglorious were two words, he'd fit both of them...