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...Dodgers and Angels. Cincinnati's Pete Rose was closing in on one of the game's most cherished records, Ty Cobb's standard of 4,191 base hits; as the weekend began, he needed only three more to break it. The young Met fireballer, Dwight Gooden, a 20-game winner at the age of 20, was prompting comparisons with the greatest pitchers of the past. But the drug disclosures could not help putting the game under a cloud. Not since the "Black Sox" scandal of 1919, when eight Chicago White Sox players admitted taking bribes from gamblers...
...Music Luise Vosgerchian, explains her philosophy. "There are two ways of educating," she says. The first is for the professor to devote his or her life to research and then present the results to the students who can then "accept or reject it," she explains. The second method, the winner of one of last year's Levenson Awards for outstanding teaching explains, is to diagnose the extent of the student's knowledge and "then proceed to challenge the student...
...Music Luise Vosgerchian, explains her philosophy. "There are two ways of educating," she says. The first is for the professor to devote his or her life to research and then present the results to the students who can then "accept or reject it," she explains. The second method, the winner of one of last year's Levenson Awards for outstanding teaching explains, is to diagnose the extent of the student's knowledge and "then proceed to challenge the student...
Such was the unexpectedly heart-warming climax to a thoroughly manic chase after the biggest prize ever offered in the U.S. The award had swollen to epic size because no winner had been declared in seven successive plays of New York's Lotto 48 game. As the jackpot climbed first to $23 million, then $33.5 million and finally to its peak, serpentine lines of ticket buyers formed all over the state, each person shelling out $1 for each chance to choose two sets of six numbers. In Manhattan the queues were so long and contained such a variety of people...
...stage. Since the inaugural in 1955, it has attracted established stars to work with esteemed journeymen and expectant beginners. Everyone in American theater, it seems, has sojourned there, and over the years nearly 200 company members have earned awards for stage, screen or TV work. Among them: 1985 Tony Winner Stockard Channing, Oscar Winners Rita Moreno and Christopher Walken, Emmy Winner Nancy Marchand. What lures them to Williamstown? A casual atmosphere, the chance to experiment without commercial pressures and the sylvan pleasures of the Williams College campus in the Massachusetts Berkshires. This year the company staged 78 events...