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...Elis secondary quartet of seniors John Furjanic and juniors Eric Drury, Maurice Saah and Scott Wagner has been as maligned as the Harvard offense. Ranked last passing-wise in the Ivy League, the Yale defense has allowed 57 percent of its opponents' passes to be completed for 2077 yards. Opposing QB's would be candidates for the Heisman Trophy with a pass efficiency rating...
...people voted, but the press pulled the strings. If not for the fiendish manipulation of the partisans at the Boston Globe and WCVB-TV (and The Crimson, perhaps), the wise people of Massachusetts would have chosen correctly...
...play honest hockey," Smith said. "We hope that teams look past us, and we can sneak by them. We don't have mirrors or smoke here. We have a group of seniors here who have been through some lean years. We'd like to salvage their experiences, record-wise...
...some audiences -- and even to some producers -- a woman comic is an oxymoron, like a wise fool. Whenever Rudner has been considered as the potential star of her own TV show, she says, "the first thing that happens in all of my interviews is, 'We'll assign writers to you, and they will follow you around.' I say, 'But I am a writer. Can't I make a contribution?' And they say, 'Well, you're not really network approved, because you haven't written anything yet.' " No wonder that Rudner is off in Britain now, shooting a series...
...While male lockups may train inmates for such high-paying trades as welding and mechanics, courses in women's facilities still concentrate on homemaking or low-paid skills like beautician and launderer. The pity is that women inmates, often the sole support of their families, are "more motivated career-wise than the men," says Paul Bestolarides, who directs a program at the Northern California Women's Facility in Stockton that includes training in landscaping and electrical work. Too often a woman leaves prison even less equipped to earn an honest living than her male counterpart...