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...novelist knows his way around the block. Take the first sentence of Larry McMurtry's moody, sensitive, ironic yet lightheartedly despairing new novel: "Duane was in the hot tub, shooting at his new doghouse with a .44 Magnum." The Jamesian restraint of the language -- not "Blam, blam, blam, wood chips glinted in the dusty air," but a dreamlike, almost passive kind of doghouse blasting -- foreshadows subtle stuff. The hero, we sense, is a country boy (the name Duane, and the implication that there is enough vacant acreage behind the doghouse so that stray bullets won't perforate anything important) whose...
...best. That has been the Marines' coda from Tripoli to Belleau Wood, from Guadalcanal to Inchon. But in the past few years, these gleaming images have dissolved into others: blood-spattered rubble in Beirut, interservice turf battles in Grenada, a can-do lieutenant colonel wearing a medal-bedecked uniform while invoking the Fifth Amendment, furtive Moscow nights of sex for secrets. Says former California Congressman Pete McCloskey, a twice-wounded Marine veteran of Korea: "When I saw 200-plus Marines in Beirut bunched up in violation of every standard precept, I winced a lot. When I saw Ollie North...
RESULTS (Harvard players in Caps) Singles: I, Katie Molumphy def. KATHY VIGNA, 2-6, 6-2, 6-0; 2, ROBIN BOSS def. Amy Richardson, 6-0, 6-2; 3, KRISTIN BLAND def. Chrissy Wood, 6-3, 6-0; 4, CYNDY AUSTRIAN def. Lisa Rosamilia, 6-3, 6-4; 5, CHRISTINA DRAGOMIRESCU def. Berit Hanna, 3-6, 6-4, 7-2; 6, KATHY MULVEHAL def. Julie Walsh...
Doubles: 1, BOSS-BLAND def. Richardson-Cathryn Sullivan, 6-4, 6-2; 2, VIGNA-AUSTRIAN def. Molumphy-Wood, 7-6 (9-7), 6-2; 3, Christina Callahan-Heidi Kunichika def. MULVEHAL-DRAGOMIRESCU...
...those asked at the first practice session.) He answered in a straightforward way, avoiding the jokes he sometimes tells to entertain his audience. "I was really nervous until practice today," said one staffer that afternoon. "The President is on target; he'll do fine." The aide then knocked on wood...