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Coming off a stirring 11-4 upset over then-No. 16 Yale, which ended a four-game slide for Harvard, the Crimson (5-6, 2-3 Ivy) returned to the wrong side of the scoreboard, dropping an 8-5 decision to No. 8 UMass (10-2, 4-1 ECAC...
...later, the fugitive ex-champion, sought by U.S. authorities for violating U.N. sanctions on Yugoslavia (in 1992 he played a high-profile rematch with Boris Spassky in Belgrade), is whisked out of a Japanese jail where he was awaiting extradition and offered shelter in Reykjav?k. No one is too upset about this arrangement because he's clearly a sick man. His insane rants about Jews and America, his choice of a squalid, furtive life by a man who could have lived in princely admiration, his paranoia--he had the fillings in his teeth removed because if "somebody took a filling...
...Kyoko Mori, who coordinates the English Department’s creative writing program, Engell’s push comes partly in response to an unusually high degree of dissatisfaction from students whose creative thesis applications were rejected this year. Playwrights in particular, she said, were “really upset...
...Guthrie has become the poster boy for China's antipiracy campaign. Last week, a Shanghai court sentenced the 38-year-old to 30 months in prison. (Two local accomplices and another American were also jailed.) Still, Guthrie plainly likes China: his lawyer says his client is "really more upset" that he will be deported after completing the jail term...
...fact Carter was asked twice to go and decided, perhaps in one of his quaint bouts of political pique, not to join the delegation. Carter lobbied the world both in the Clinton and the elder Bush presidencies and again in George W's time against U.S. policy, which did upset all three Presidents. (They complained a little bit among themselves in Rome.) But the Clinton and the Bushes are forgiving people and would have locked arms and marched off in harmony as a threesome, the world's most exclusive fraternity. Jerry Ford was asked...