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...weeks ago, a group of Harvard supporters yelled “Arg!” every time Yale’s Evan Stone touched the ball, supposedly because of his similarity to a pirate...
English is notoriously illogical. For example, if "tongue" is pronounced tung, why isn't "argue" pronounced arg? And if "enough" is enuff, why isn't "bough" pronounced buff? The arbitrary rules that govern English bedevil nonnative students of the language as much as they torment would-be spelling-bee champs. But such frustrations pale before those endured by dyslexics, who live with a learning disability that can make reading and writing all but impossible...
Although Pentagon officials say they have received no invasion orders from the White House, they will be ready to carry them out as early as this week, following the arrival of a four-ship flotilla in the waters off Haiti. This amphibious ready group (ARG) carries 2,000 Marines and packs a tremendous wallop. The armada includes the Inchon, a helicopter carrier; the Portland and the Trenton, which can deliver troops to shore by boats and helicopters; and the Spartanburg County, designed to put tanks and other heavy equipment ashore. They join another helicopter carrier, the Wasp, with 650 Marines...
Amin's accession is unlikely to bring much peace to the ancient mountain kingdom. Afghanistan has been in continuous turmoil since Taraki came to power, in April 1978, following a coup in which former President Mohammed Daoud was gunned down in Arg Palace. Taraki's Marxist Khalq (masses) Party promptly launched a radical program of social reform and land redistribution. The policy met with violent resistance from the country's Islamic tribesmen, who make up some 85% of Afghanistan's 17 million people. Loyal to their old feudal leaders and enraged by the new, "godless" regime...
...ARG contends that the Catholic Church supports the Portuguese presence in Africa and enforces "white domination in the name of its civilizing mission...