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...Bisnow's analysis is more than just a chance to get even with Garth. It is a close examination of the quirks and surprises of trying to raise a candidate from a small "asterisk" notation in the polls to an almost household-name awareness, of how an obscure Congressman can become a likely alternative to the candidates provided by the two-party system...

Author: By Carla D. Williams, | Title: On the Trail | 10/3/1983 | See Source »

...pride and hurt in an attempt at emotional revisionism through architecture The Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, dedicated last week, tries to accomplish what few in the United States were and are willing to do--honor Vietnam veterans for fighting a national war without adding the ever-present, damning asterisk that the U S neither wanted nor won that conflict...

Author: By John D. Solomon, | Title: A Monument to Pain | 11/30/1982 | See Source »

...rejected. Certainly, Borg's principal, and perhaps only, goal left in tennis is to win the U.S. Open, a title that has eluded him in the finals for the past two years. Face with a denial there, he would probably play the qualifying Wimbledon, for Borg, more an asterisk in the record books than a present challenge, is crucial as a tune-up for the September open classic in New York...

Author: By Steven M. Arkow, | Title: Borg's Day In Court | 4/15/1982 | See Source »

...ballots mailed out to all Coop members. Coop-endorsed candidates are denoted by an asterisk. "Coop Group" candidates wanted to be identified as a slate believing in "student items at student prices, responsible investments, positive labor-management relations and better communication between students and board members." But the ballots mailed out April 2 made no mention of the independent slate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Keeping Track . . . | 4/10/1982 | See Source »

...subscribes to Partisan Review could probably hold a reasonably intimate dinner party these days. Monthly Review its fraternal twin, also stands in no danger of wielding influence. On this campus, only the Spartacus Youth League, that lunatic asterisk to every generalization, " defends" the USSR, and when the crackdown began in Warsaw, it was the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee that threw together a protest meeting, not the Conservative Club When one counts prominent American leftists--not a very time-consuming task--next to none come to mind who urge "communism" and most. Michael Harrington for instance, have at one time...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Reminder, Not Revelation | 3/20/1982 | See Source »

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