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...Nowinski was not ready to abandon his aspirations on account of one setback...
Yankee fans are subject to all manner of abuse in this town, simply by virtue of remaining true to our home team. The message of Usher’s article can only be that the proper response to such abuse is to abandon old loyalties, to alter our identities as Yankee fans, so that we may be rewarded by the “half smiles” and “nods” of Bostonians...
Large-scale construction takes support from central administration, and when that support wanes it becomes impossible for the arts to expand. According to one senior museum official, Summers chose to abandon the controversial proposal for the modern art museum to focus on winning other concessions from Cambridge residents, although Senior Director of Community Relations Mary Power said the building had a negligible chance of actually gaining the city’s approval. Yet former art museums director James Cuno, who had collaborated extensively with Rudenstine in planning the museum, announced last summer he would leave Harvard to take over Courtauld...
...when Israel dug in for a long-term occupation, and the U.S. Marines propped up an unpopular pro-Western government, radical Shiite groups rose to the fore. Taking the lead in attacking Israeli and U.S. troops with everything from sniper fire to suicide bombs, they forced Reagan to completely abandon Lebanon in less than 18 months...
...retired, sad and alone, to the Umbrian countryside, where he boozes and listlessly cruises for some thrill to replace the boy in silver shorts who broke his heart. When a young, brutish (and dog-hating) man known only as the Bosnian comes to stay, Cockcroft foolishly agrees to abandon the dog in Rome. Trekking home to his master, Timoleon Vieta, "with eyes as pretty as a girl's," charms food, ear tickles and hapless, bizarre love stories out of the strangers he meets. Disappointed love is the sole subject of Rhodes' two earlier books of short stories...