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Said Drakos, a New Yorker who caught three balls last Saturday against Colgate: "Me and all the other freshmen have one goal [for our time at Harvard], and that's to get a ring--to win the Ivy League title...
Ulysses Dove, 47, another New Yorker, defiantly opts for freedom. He has earned the rare distinction of being the only dancer to have performed for both Ailey and Merce Cunningham, whose choreographic visions were diametrically opposite. Despite his admitted debt to Ailey, for whom he also composed dances, Dove has no interest in centering his own work on black motifs. In fact, sex rather than race dominates most of the 17 pieces, raw but energetic, that he has created since he stopped dancing in 1980. "If you want to be political, the place to do that is politics," he says...
...interview included in her book's press packet, she says that when she looks back on her days of depression. "I see myself as more pure, more raw, more instinctive, more in touch with all the evil of the world, more emotional and more attuned." She cites a New Yorker cartoon depicting Marx on Prozac declaring. "Sure! Capitalism can work out its kinks!" This, presumably, is the Prozac nation which the book title promises to reveal: a culture of blithely unconcerned, and thus morally and politically suspect, druggies...
Last year the team was the best it's been in years. It had acquired such potential phenoms as Jill Brenner, a nationally-ranked transfer student from the University of Florida; Gina Majmudar, a New Yorker so good in high school she earned a place in Sports Illustrated's "Faces in the Crowd"; and Maryla Madura, a high school standout from Florida. Putting that talent to work, the team went 10-6 and came within upset losses to Princeton and Dartmouth of qualifying for nationals and garnering the league crown...
...when imported monkeys started dying from a strain of the Ebola virus. After destroying 500 monkeys and quarantining the lab and everyone in it, officials found that this particular strain was harmless to humans. But the episode was dramatic enough to inspire an article in the New Yorker magazine -- now expanded into a soon-to-be released book called The Hot Zone -- and work on two competing movies (one of which seems to have collapsed before production...