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If Ken Hatfield believed more in fate than faith, he might wonder what he's doing at Rice University, smallest of the 107 Division I-A football schools. Back when he was...

The Dutch government, which already supports the most lenient drug policies in Europe, is proposing to give free heroin to addicts. Health Minister Els Borst-Eilers and Justice Minister Winnie Sorgdrager...

Stars in Their Courses: The Gettysburg Campaign By Shelby Foote Modern Library, 304 pages, $13.50 The three volumes of Shelby Foote's "The Civil War: A Narrative," a monumental account of...

Huge brown, furry buffaloes stampede across the den, clouds of dust flying, hundreds of hooves pounding, music building dramatically. Music? On the plains? Sure-if you've turned a room of your...

The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to study a novel state effort to save money on welfare spending. The justices announced they will study a ruling by the 9th U.S....

Built for bathtubs, some 7,220 rubber ducks are successfully plying the vast Pacific, in company with 21,660 rubber (plastic, actually) turtles, beavers and frogs. There is something inspiring about this...

Defend the Valley: A Shenandoah Family in the Civil War By Margaretta Barton Colt Orion Books, 464 pages, $35 Virginia's Shenandoah Valley runs 150 miles southwest from Harpers Ferry, between...

Sunlight casts an icy shimmer down the 200-foot white marble walls of the underground quarry, the source of stone for national monuments and uncounted tombstones. From the quarry came the...

The beautiful Princess Daphne has been kidnapped by the fire-breathing dragon Scorch. Control the actions of Dirk the Daring as he fights his way through an enchanted castle to save...

W.H. Auden: Juvenilia Edited by Katherine Bucknell Princeton, 336 pages, $29.95 They were the most brilliant bunch of boys English literature has ever seen, those writers who came to fame...