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Harvard can expect to see many changes in the coming year, as it prepares to leave Cumnock Field for a new artificial turf field, which began construction in March. The field will not be ready for the start of the 1998 season, but it will take some time to prepare for so radical a change in playing surface...
...Lord knows what happens next!" bellows Chuck Cooper, a Tony Award-winning actor from The Life. What happens next is a little theater magic. Vanessa Williams enters, slithers onto a straight-backed chair and sings Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home. This tune is a taunt, a turf marking and a declaration of sexual independence in 32 bars. And with Williams, a young star of CDs, movies and TV, cooing it, the number is also a warning to those who ignore the shining legacy and dogged vitality of the American musical theater: baby, you don't know what...
...China. The president's summer travels will also take him to the People's Republic. In the first visit of an American president since Tiananmen, the world will be watching and wondering if Clinton will confront the Chinese on issues of human rights on their own turf. If he doesn't you can be sure that those protesters that greeted President Jiang here at Harvard and around the country last fall will be waiting for him when he comes home...
...People always have something funny to say," Evans says. Striding through patches of fresh cut turf in the Yard, it is the smells of the city that Evans recalls--the cars, people, food, even the pollution...
...spent looking over their shoulder. Brother Bill has other gambits too. Realizing that many gangsters spend countless nights holed up in apartments watching sports on television, he recently introduced them to a foreign concept: the sports bar. Initially they turned to Brother Bill to guide them on unfamiliar turf. Nowadays they freely go to Champions near O'Hare Airport and the Alumni Club in downtown Chicago to watch their favorite teams...