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...present, the general situation of the revolution in Kampuchea is excellent, considering the fact that ours is a backward country just freed from devastating war launched by the U.S. imperialists...
...Backward is one way to describe the country. Brutal, according to those who have escaped, is more apt. Significantly, the escapees include more and more former Khmer Rouge fighters who once served as the enforcers for Angka Loeu, the "Organization on High," which runs the country as a Communist fiefdom...
...heap. Ever since that afternoon in the Yale Bowl two years ago when Mike Lynch kicked a 26-yd, wobbly duck for the deciding field goal and the Crimson's first undisputed title ever, the Crimson's motion, the trademark of the multiflex, has either been illegal or backward...
French is neither the first nor will she be the last to voice these views. Her realizations, or rather those of her characters, all of whom come across as believable people instead of polemical mouthpieces, at first seem trite and backward looking. The housewives meet daily for coffee, constantly interrupted by clamoring children. They turn their husbands' selfishness into a joke, but refuse to acknowledge their oppression. Identifying with these women is difficult; if anything, they represent the lives of our mothers, lives that we have rejected...
...what if on a gorgeous afternoon here Saturday, in front of a semi-sober gathering 64,685 Yale captured its first undisputed Ivy title via a 24-7 triumph over a Harvard contingent that has taken a giant step backward in two short years...