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...Crimson continued its winning ways and downed Penn to pull off the team’s first sweep of the Killer P’s since 1987. “I was really pleased and proud of how [the team] performed in that environment and not just accept what looked like our fate,” Amaker said. “We battled, scratched, and clawed, and we found out that, sometimes, when you do those things, you get rewarded for it.” —Staff writer Mauricio A. Cruz can be reached at cruz2@fas.harvard.edu...
...average annual economic growth in industrialized countries remains around two percent for the next decade, I would agree energy probably will not be a big problem for the rest of the decade,” states Lantzke. “But I doubt any democratic society could accept the increasing unemployment such slow growth would entail...
...afraid. That year, everyone began checking their Halloween candy for needle-puncture marks. Nobody ever found any. There were the usual stories of unfortunate children biting into apples and finding razor blades, but we had grown immune to these by then. Everyone knew that you didn’t accept candy from strangers; everyone knew that New York’s streets were dangerous, especially on October 31st, and that apples were boring anyway. As city kids, we were used to these things—they actually made the night more exciting. So it seems strange—at least...
...Upon receiving his class membership, Summers acknowledged being “touched,” but quipped that he could only accept the honor on the condition that he would not be asked to donate as an alum—an unhappy circumstance that he said he has encountered after receiving honorary membership from several other classes at various alumni events...
...national political convention, as Senator Knowland, currently the strongest threat to Nixon’s presidential hopes, has realized by running for the California governorship this fall. The most important method by which Nixon can build up personal obligations and loyalty among Republican state committees is to accept numerous campaign speaking dates in the various states. But a heavy speech schedule lures him into the dangers of partisanship and charges of dirty politics to which Nixon is vulnerable...