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...ratings for the All-Star game were up 9% this year, and it's no wonder. CAL RIPKEN JR., America's official icon of staying power, provided enough heart-tugging drama for a Billy Crystal TV movie by crushing a home run in his final bow at an All-Star game. Grown men wept as the room-service fastball, served up by Chan Ho Park, landed beyond the left-field fence. For comic relief, TOMMY LASORDA took a flying baseball bat off his hip while coaching third base, wobbled over and popped right back up like the giant, adorable Weeble...
...WORKS This criminal comedy remains deliciously deadpan about the wages of psychopathy. We don't doubt that Michel and his brood deserve a somewhat better life. We can't help admiring the high, dry wit with which their (fairy) tale is recounted. We briefly wonder if Michel, as well as Harry, should pay some sort of price for his good fortune. But, nah--that would interfere with the knife-edged perversity of the piece, the sense we derive from it of fate's inexplicable workings, presented neither doomily nor ironically, but as a supercool form of realism...
Since a lab in Virginia has already created made-to-order embryos for stem-cell research, and another in Massachusetts is cloning embryos for the same purpose, it's hard not to wonder: Is federal money really necessary? No matter what Bush decides, stem-cell research is sure to continue. But federal funding would dramatically change the scope of this research, widening the circle of scientists involved and most likely accelerating the rate at which cures are found...
...through his many roles. Following each of three operations for lung cancer over the past seven-and-a-half years, he returned right away to the stage. As he lay in intensive care, I told him, "You've worked too hard." Tears appeared in his eyes. I can only wonder what those tears said. Drama is life. For the life of the mind and of the arts, he staked...
Many summer school courses are taught by non-Harvard faculty, which has led some students to wonder just how “veritable” a Harvard experience the summer school really...