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...House drew first blood on their initial play from scrimmage. Halfback Charlie Caro's 70-yard touchdown pass to speedster Jamie Egasti stunned the frozen Winthrop secondary. But Egasti's extra point boot went astray, and the score stood...
Leading the crusade, Bryant argued that the statute condoned homosexuality, which she claimed was against God's law. The mother of four children, Bryant scored most heavily when she claimed that the ordinance would force principals to hire homosexual teachers who could lead their pupils astray...
...FESTIVAL'S highlight is the complete version of Ladislas Starevitch's The Mascot, a fairy tale of innocence astray in a wicked world. The film, made in 1934, is a classic of puppet and object animation. A dew-eyed puppy puppet--who bears a vague resemblance to Alfred Hitchcock--is brought to life by the tears of a dollmaker who is too poor to buy her sick daughter the oranges she dreams of. The dollmaker sends the puppy to be sold in a toy store. He manages to escape his new owner there as well as his fate...
...knowledge be obtained, and that "no knowledge is genuine unless based on generally observable facts"--is that economics is not a science. It is not free of an underlying ideology or philosophy. What's more, it should not try to be. Neoclassical economists--Samuelson and his colleagues--have gone astray, writes Schumacher, surreptitiously sneaking value judgments into their theoretical toolkits, and by choosing the wrong values...
...could not be compromised. Thomas's political strategy was often contradictory and destructive. Striving to broaden the party's base, he wooed both liberal Democrats on the right and communists on the left, wishfully and, as it turned out, rather naively viewing the latter as Socialists who had gone astray. In so doing, he alienated many of the Old Guard Socialists who accused him of undue willingness to compromise, while simultaneously providing an opening for the Trotskyites, who deliberately sabotaged their rival party on the Left. The liberals, on the other hand, regularly deserted the party to vote for "progressive...