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...political theater but little more. Unless both parties get down to examining how the terrorists carried out the atrocities, it won't do much to thwart future attacks. "It's good to have a commission, but honestly I'm not sure anything useful will come of it," says Juan Avilés, director of the University Institute for the Investigation of Internal Security. "I'm afraid the main question will be a political squabble about who was wrong." Still, neither major party wants to let the blame game get out of hand. They struck a deal to keep both Aznar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blame Game | 7/11/2004 | See Source »

Only in the first scene can there be any avil with Scott. Here Lear emerges as a hard old man, virile and violent, and with only occasional traces of madness or senility. It is difficult to conceive of this Lear surrendering any part of his kingdom; he is a rash old reprobate living out his life at the top of his lungs...

Author: By Daniel Field, | Title: King Lear | 4/18/1958 | See Source »

When "Madame Bovarv", the "Egolst", "Pere Goriot" can be treated adequately in fifteen minutes the world will have grown so avil speed that no alternative to this writing of radio povelettes will be allowed the author. Until then it is evident that the aspirant for real literary honors must strive for something more than can be crowded into fifteen minutes and stuffed into the ears of people waiting in bear stock reports or the best jazz hand...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A NOVEL NOVELTY | 12/14/1925 | See Source »

...member of last year's baseball team, except Captain Blakeley, third base, and Gorman and Grey, outfielders is debarred from playing this season. A large number of substitutes were also made ineligible for the nine. Among those debarred are Reuning, catcher; Schoenhut and Dickson, pitchers; and Goekle, Contrell and Avil, infielders. An investigation showed that these players had played on "summer nines" and in other ways had violated the University of Pennsylvania amateur rule...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: U. of P. Players Debarred. | 1/30/1896 | See Source »

...runs - Harvard 2, Pennsylvania. Three-base hits, Rand. Goeckel. Two-base hit - Scannell. Sacrifice hits - Burgess, Gorman. Stolen Bases - Winslow 2, Dean 2, Hayes, Wrenn, Goeckel. First base on balls - Winslow 2, Burgess, Wrenn, Schoenhut 2, Reunig 2. Hit by pitched ball - Schoenhut 2. Struck out - Hayes, Scannell, Stevenson, Avil 3, Reunig, Tracy. Time - 1h. 45m. Umpire - O'Rourke...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD, 8; PENNSYLVANIA, 3. | 6/10/1895 | See Source »

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