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Approaching the island after dawn, the intrepid hams quickly discovered that the Coast Guard's warning had been apt. The wire ladder was there, all right, but the backwash was violent. Transporting gear, including 50 boxes of electronic equipment, three rotatable-beam antennas, two gasoline-powered generators weighing about 150 Ibs. each, plus assorted 20-ft.-long steel pipes, bamboo poles, 250-lb. gasoline drums, kegs of drinking water and a week's food supply, looked impossible. Just getting to the swaying ladder seemed daunting enough...
When particular press misjudges a major turn of events, right-wingers in particular are apt to suspect a liberal bias. That charge infuriates press professionals who think they know how to put aside whatever political opinions they have when going after a story. The reason the press misjudged some events in Poland, Egypt and Nicaragua is more complicated. It was less a case of bias than of mindset, to apply a clumsy but useful vogue word...
Standing waist-deep in a recession, after 20 years of change that hurled the cultural furniture around and turned much of it to junk, they are apt to think longingly of excellence. They may watch a film like Chariots of Fire, for example, with a nostalgic pang for the simplicity of its moral lines, its portrait of excellence unambiguously pursued...
...those Americans not yet successful (the struggling, the underclass) are apt to aim at ease, not excellence: the confusion contaminates character and disables ambition...
HANOVER, N.H.--The walls of Dartmouth's gym are green, the wooden benches are slated seats of dull gray. Perhaps the color scheme is no apt a metaphor as anything for their basketball season. The Green played big in the first half of last night's Ivy encounter against Harvard, but a combination of an inspired Crimson second-half play, and a self-imposed Dartmouth belittlement led Harvard...