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THIS CONTROVERSY could waste a lot of time. IOP pols have to polish their quotes for The Crimson, ace reporters Ira E. Stoll '94 and Joanna M. Weiss '94 have to do a four-part series on said IOP pols, President Rudenstine has to write a thoughtful yet sensitive open letter to the community, the Dems and Republicans have to play less-Nazi-than-thou, someone around here has to write a wryly-disapproving-but-above-it-all staff editorial, countless well-meaning souls have to flood The Crimson with countless well-meaning letters to the editors, the Black Students...
...English soccer fans are devastated. Their top scoring ace, GARY LINEKER, is moving to the Grampus Eight club of Nagoya, Japan, in a deal worth nearly $9 million. Japan, where professional soccer will get under way in 1993, wants to become a global force in the sport. Such companies as Matsushita, Mazda and Toyota, which have invested in soccer teams, are luring world-class players to kick-start the action...
...Yamamoto's key planners was Commander Minoru Genda, still only 36, still a hot pilot at heart, first in his class at the Etajima naval academy, combat ace over China, leader of a daredevil stunt team called Genda's Flying Circus. Genda contributed several key ideas: that every available Japanese carrier should be assigned to the attack, that it should combine dive-bombing, high-level bombing and torpedoes, that the attackers should strike at dawn...
...were only a simple case of crooks vs. cops, art theft might be easier to control. But complicity is rife within the art world. Richard Volpe, who was an ace art detective with the New York City police for 25 years, contends that "the least guilty of all parties are the thieves." These "mules," he insists, "couldn't do it without the cooperation of gallery owners, flea- market purveyors, auction houses, museums, insurers, security companies, collectors and finally law-enforcement agencies. Everyone else either knowingly or through neglect gives the thief...
...Ace In the Hole. With Kirk Douglas...