Word: wee
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...felt until about a year ago, when I discovered the hip coolness that Frank and his Rat Pack buddies displayed in their heyday. When I broke up with my girlfriend a few weeks ago, I went into my room, turned out the lights and listened to In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning...for an entire night. Even with the variety of music around these days, such as alternative, heavy metal and rap, I cannot find any other singer or group that gets to me the way Frank can. JASON TSAI Topeka, Kans...
Aside from its historical significance, however, Harvard's victory elicited the type of reaction seldom evoked by a sporting event, especially here in Cambridge. Thousands of students gathered around any television set they could find in the wee hours of the morning on March 15, 1998--the game began shortly after 9 p.m. Western Time, midnight on the East Coast--to watch their women's basketball team make history...
They must have been a spirited couple in their day. Mira Sorvino, whose former boyfriend Quentin Tarantino was recently embroiled in a wee bar punch-up, had her own little confrontation at Cannes. For some reason Sorvino decided to attend a press event for a Johnny Depp-Roman Polanski movie. After it was fini, Sorvino was introduced to movie critic Jami Bernard, who wrote a biography of Tarantino. The Oscar winner angrily demanded to know why Bernard subsequently interviewed Tony Tarantino, her old flame's biological but very estranged father, for Premiere. "It was a cruel and immoral thing...
Blacks today don't have an "H.N.I.C." As a community, we are facing different problems than we have before. Not only that, but blacks across the country live very different live. The blacks here at Harvard, for example, are just a wee bit different than the blacks living in a poor neighborhood in New Orleans or the blacks living in the suburbs of Colorado. Asking one person to speak for us is a ridiculous proposition...
Also, none of the letters have mentioned that Wee Willie Keeler, the originator of "hitting 'em where they ain't," was once a coach at Harvard. In fact, William Clarence Matthews, one of Keeler's most talented charges at Harvard in 1902, almost became the first black player in the majors more than 40 years before Robinson. LEV POLINSKY, '99-'00 April...