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...Crimson must shake its lethargy by Saturday, when it hosts Cornell at Cumnock Field. The game marks a return to natural grass for the Crimson, which has played its last two contests on unfamiliar artificial turf...
Every year a stream of unfamiliar faces and square brown boxes flows into Harvard Yard. But like most traditions here, eventually--and slowly--things change a little...
...stale debate. "There is a freshness to his writing," says producer Thomas Lennon, who persuaded Steele to do the PBS special Seven Days in Bensonhurst after reading one of his essays in Harper's. "By making himself his own laboratory, he cuts at familiar issues in a very unfamiliar way." Says author Stanley Crouch, like Steele a critic of affirmative action: "One of the most important things he is doing is questioning Pavlovian racial responses. What's important is not that other people agree with what he says. It's that serious discussion is brought to the discourse dominated...
Wildlife herds may be dwindling across most of Africa, but in central Uganda their ranks have unexpectedly grown in recent years with the addition of an unfamiliar breed: feral pigs...
Larry (Tim Robbins) is not entirely unfamiliar either. You have met him most memorably in Dog Day Afternoon. He is the not-quite-bright, entirely too volatile urban terrorist of every passerby's nightmare. For he is the kind of weirdo who one day decides to air his grievances by invading public space, grabbing a few hostages and seeing if the resulting police and media attention will ease the throbbing in his temples. Larry rides his motorcycle through the plate-glass window of Turgeon Auto, in grungy Queens, N.Y., where Joey works. He is looking for whoever is having...