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...Paula Poundstone Show, ABC's new Saturday-night comedy hour, has been canceled after just two abysmally rated episodes. It's the second fastest ax of the new season; CBS earlier junked South of Sunset after only one outing...
More than any of his outrageous colleagues do, he grants an aura of believability to a bit of braggadocio that appeared in the War Ax, a "skinzine" published by the Georgia group SS of America...
...attackers are sometimes called free-lance terrorists, and some truly are. Examples are the Palestinians with no history of political activity or affiliation with any organization who randomly stab or ax Israelis on the streets, and some of the German rightists who assault and kill Turks and other foreigners. Their depredations are "unorganized, unstructured, spontaneous acts with a political motivation," says Ernst Uhrlau, director of the Hamburg branch of an agency equivalent to the FBI. Police can never predict where or whom they will strike because, says Uhrlau, the offenders themselves "don't know in the morning what they will...
...scraps to make a puzzle. Cearley's fall seems easier to understand. He and two companions had made the arduous climb to the 20,320-ft. summit and back down to 18,500 ft. As they stopped to rest and rope up, Cearley, who was not using his ice ax, lost his balance and slid away...
Before the President must first stop the bleeding on the financial side. Immediately thereafter, if not simultaneously, he must perform a radical operation to remove the already advanced cancer on the body of Harvard--not with a scalpel, but with an ax. Being ethically clean and preserving his impeccable personal integrity may be necessary, but no longer a sufficient condition for the Harvard presidency. Rudenstine needs the guts to ask penetrating questions of his top administrators and demand their full disclosure of their personal financial status and possible conflict of interest with respect to their positions...