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It’s time for me to admit it. My name is Dan, and I’m a Boston sports fan. It’s been four days since my last trip to Fenway.(Hi, Dan.)It wasn’t always this way. For 18 years I didn’t even know I had a problem. They were simpler times, growing up in Cambridge; every sports fan I knew liked the Red Sox, every sports fan I knew liked the Patriots, and the only subject of debate was whether Tom Brady was the greatest quarterback...
...time, Administration officials are privately not denying its validity. The Administration is concerned with the significant Nicaraguan arms buildup. But the Sandinistas, whose repeated friendly overtures to the U.S. have been ignored, claim they need a bigger army to repel a U.S. or U.S.-sponsored invasion. When Administration officials admit that such plans are in the works, it isn’t difficult to empathize with the Nicaraguans. President Reagan wants to squeeze communism out of Latin America, a goal that even some liberals wouldn’t dispute. But by pouring more guns into the area and putting undue...
...Monro] was concerned about the danger that the admissions committee might not be able to admit students who had great need,” said Dustin M. Burke ’52, one of the six original incorporators along with Monro and the University’s director of student employment at the time...
...Nixon’s dilemma is particularly acute in deciding what role to play in this fall’s campaign. Party functionaries admit the Republicans will be faced with a strong opposition offensive; politically the situation calls for a vigorous counter-attack. Signs of this were seen in the “kick-off” speeches by presidential Assistant Sherman Adams and Senator Barry Goldwater last month which lambasted the Democrats in a tone not heard since...
Finally! For nine days, the 61st Cannes Film festival had doddered along into a premature senility. What we got, mostly, were cautious reprises of top directors, earlier pictures - from European minimalism, by Euro-faves like the Dardenne brothers and Nuri Bilge Ceylan (which, you have to admit, is a great name) - to Hollywood gigantism from the Indiana Jones team. The Riviera fortnight has been so stodgy that we almost welcomed a wild, four-and-a-half hour misfire like Steven Soderbergh's Che. But now our (my) patience has been rewarded, our (my) biliousness calmed. One good movie...