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...Mather House Semor Lutor Steven Epsterm prepared a report chock full of numbers supposedly indicating the deleterious effects of the present system. Master Bossert and others who know immediately denounced the report which contained few if any statistically significant figures Indeed in 1969 Harvard College implemented a random lottery amidst existing student unrest and everyone grew more angry and frustrated--not only the rioting students, but also the Master and parents. The system a random scrapped the next year...
...amidst the hard times of baseball, and for the hard times of the Great Depression, came from the game. Jimmy Austin, an old Cine the Great Depression, came from the game. Jimmy Austin, an old Cincinnati third baseman, speaks for most when he says, "Golly, if I had it to do all over the only thing I'd do different would be to start sooner and stop later. It was great." It's almost hard to imagine a player today saying "golly," unless he said something like, "golly, I really think I'm worth 1.5 million a year," or, "golly...
What's the point of all this? That's hard to say. Amidst the lances at liberals, Hart mixes in gushy descriptions of the weather, glowing and predictable accounts of football "gladiators", and very specific indictments of the administration for stoking the degenerate liberal ethos. In some of those cases, the Dartmouth administration seems in the wrong. For instance, Hart points out, the administration dealt severely with the student who was dressed as an Indian, the rallying point for Dartmouth conservatives, but it took no notice of another group of "minority students" who destroyed a traditional snow sculpture when...
WHEN IT COMES to Shakespearean romance, nothing is ever quite as it seems. Women constantly disguising as men, fools providing wisdom to elderly sages--you name the incongruity, and chances are, it's there. Yet somehow, amidst such seeming chaos, playwright and characters always manage to extricate themselves from confusion and discover matrimonial bliss before the final curtain falls...
...THOUGHTFUT and farsighted voter, nothing could have been more chilling than the prospect of Ronald Reagan casting the next Supreme Court. Somehow though, this far-reaching concern got lost amidst competing claims about who could best tame the deficit or who would rein in the runaway arms race. Sure, the President mumbled something about how well he did with Sandra Day O'Connor and Mondale occasionally warned against the perils of Reagan court, but next to the obvious and immediate issues of budgets and bombs the Court received watcher put it. "For one of the most profound issues...