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Riding atop the crest of a three-game winning streak, the Crimson duels with Eastern Regional number-one seed William & Mary today at noon in Williamsburg, Va. The Crimson--who recently upset ninth-ranked Pepperdine in Malibu, Cal.--must prevail in today's match to have a legitimate shot at capturing the Eastern Regional title and cracking the Top 25 polls that come out April 17th...
...NOTEBOOK: Following the William & Mary match, Harvard travels to Charlottesville, Va. to take on Virginia Sunday at 1:30 p.m. The Crimson fell to the Cavaliers, 6-3, in the fall...
...harm. Though some music has exploited satanic and occult themes, the religious crusaders are more concerned about other problems. The Rev. Donald Wildmon's American Family Association, based in Tupelo, Miss., is concentrating on vulgar, sadistic and violent sex songs. Tipper Gore's Parents' Music Resource Committee of Arlington, Va., especially decries records that foment contempt toward Jews, minorities and women...
...Millimeter astronomy is really the one area of astronomy I think in the country that has been shortchanged," said Paul Vanden Bout, director of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Charlottesville, Va. "It really hasn't gotten its due and I think the time has come before our friends abroad run away with the field...
...giddy escalation in prices is due in part to scarcity, since pre- Revolutionary furniture is as sparse as its spare Yankee lines. The rarest pieces were handcrafted in the port cities of Philadelphia, Newport, Boston, Salem, Mass., and Portsmouth, Va., where rich patrons financed local artisans. These wealthy merchants, hoping to create heirlooms for their families, combed the Caribbean for the finest, oldest mahogany trees. The wood they found was dense and close-grained, unlike the spongy grain of the younger, forced-growth trees that are planted today. "All the great wood was used up in the 18th century," maintains...