Word: actualizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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FROM WATCHING the National Collegiate Athletic Association's television commercials during football games, you wouldn't know anything is wrong. "America's energy is mindpower," the ads tout, celebrating the happy and flourishing union of athletics and academics. But the actual state of the NCAA reveals a considerably different picture...
...condemn a seven-year-old kid to death in six of these states," says Hunter Hurst, director of the National Center for Juvenile Justice. In most states, though, a serious juvenile offender between the ages of 14 and 16 is eligible to be tried as an adult. The actual treatment of each child is usually left to the discretion of the juvenile judge. Among the criteria that judges use in making their decisions: the seriousness of the charge, the history of the child and the availability of effective facilities for the rehabilitation of the minor...
...spurred the action. In Funeral Games it is his absence that motivates events. Yet the novelist-historian has done a fine job in focusing nearly half a century of chaos. Her prose, as usual, has an Attic clarity; her research is sound and her imagined scenes cenotaphs. Lacking the actual remains, they convey the unparalleled aura of Alexander and his time...
...psychoanalytical approach yields such occasional epiphanies, it all too often thrusts the analyst herself into the biography and we see the actual process of analysis. In the course of a treatment of Odets's private diaries, for instance, we are told that one entry "stops the biographer in her tracks with its bite and prescience, until she deduces it was written long after the fact...
...Harvard men's squash team wrote the latest chapter in its 23-year winning streak against Navy yesterday at Hemenway as the squad, led by freshman David Boyum, trashed a competitive (read: "eager to compete") Midshipman squad, 9-0. Even if the Midshipmen haven't won an actual dual match since before any of yesterday's competitors were born, it's almost certain that they never lose a warm-up. These guys stand with their noses up against the front wall and bash the ball so hard in the pre-match rallies that there's no way their oppent...