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Harvard defeated Middlebury (10-0), Maine (4-0) and Brown (6-4) to reach the finals. George Askew and Nick Green did most of the scoring for the Crimson...
...other Democrats. In addition to Fritz Mondale, I like John Glenn very much. He is one Democrat along with Mondale who could carry our party to victory in 1984. Gary Hart and Reubin Askew also meet my criteria for potentially successful candidates. Any of these would have an excellent chance...
...Rembrandt, who painted himself 60 times. The first face of Raphael Soyer is dated 1917. The artist printed it on a sheet of cheap paper with engraving plates he heated on the gas burner in the family kitchen in The Bronx. Though coarsely crosshatched, its composition a tad askew, the engraving is a riveting reflection of the artist at 18, staring at the mirror with the same unswerving, enigmatic gaze that he would cast upon the world for the next 60-odd years of self-portraiture. By 1920 Soyer had a lithographic crayon firmly in hand. With strong, fluid strokes...
...candidates who spoke-Senators Hart, John Glenn of Ohio, Fritz Rollings of South Carolina and Alan Cranston of California-turned in respectable performances but failed to fire up the crowd. Glenn looked on the bright side: "I didn't see anyone asleep." The fifth hopeful, former Governor Reubin Askew of Florida, chose not to make an address, pursuing instead the sort of quiet, behind-the-scenes strategy that helped win Jimmy Carter the nomination...
Surveying the bloodshed in Beirut, one appalled Western diplomat asked: "If this is vengeance, then what happened to [the biblical injunction] 'an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth?' " In battered Lebanon, at least, the arithmetic of Israeli retribution-100 for 1-seemed tragically askew. In Israel, however, many officials and ordinary citizens felt the raids were an appropriate response to the coldblooded shooting of Argov. It was the latest in a series of attacks on Israeli envoys. On April 3, an Israeli embassy official in Paris named Ya'acov Barsimantov, who was said...