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...Crimson played superbly, beating the Tigers convincingly--even without the aid of number-three player Adam Beren, absent due to an injured ankle...
...that the most blatant drug traders be removed from the government, a condition that Garcia Meza met last month by dismissing Colonels Arce Gomez and Coca. The Bolivian government propbably will continue to comply with U.S. demands in hopes of achieving formal recognition and the accompanying economic support. Notably absent from U.S. demands, however, is reference to the extensive political repression and human rights violations of the Garci "Meza" regime--which clearly are not ameliorated by cosmetic changes in the Bolivian cabinet...
...surprising is LeBaron's complete lack of introspection. He spends little, time questioning anyone's motivations--he never asks why students in their teens decide to give up their twenties for the grind of endless school and the care of dying patients. The psychology of his classmates is entirely absent. Conversations are included only to post straw men or to make points; they rarely give insight into the speakers. As far as LeBaron can tell, his classmates are there only because they are fourth generation HMS or the children of the faculty...
Wodehouse's childhood was a model of bland British neglect- parents absent ed in Hong Kong where father served as a magistrate while young Pelham was stashed in schools back in England. When it came time for Oxford, there was no money. The aspiring author had to clerk in a bank. When he was quarantined with mumps, the stay-at-home knocked out 19 stories in three weeks: he had taken refuge in comic art. It was to be his true home from then...
...vote for placing the referendum on the ballot was 6-0, with three members absent, but one councilor. Alfred E. Vellucci, initially balked at the referendum idea. "They can kill a lot of people in six months," Vellucci said...