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Although the Harvard football team's lack of "incentives" might dissuade the amateur football fan of any similarities to the SMU Mustangs of the early 1980s. Crimson running backs Kweli "The Human Melee" Thompson and Eion "Prime Time" Hu beg the comparison...
...parents rushed out and tried in vain to repair and cover the damage, lest the field be removed completely by the city. They were protecting their children from seeing their playground destroyed. It must have been a heart-wrenching scene, a scramble to pick up burnt pieces and to beg for something to remain in the community, even if it was charred and torn. Maybe then the vandals would allow it to stay...
None of these problems has the weight of the Yard's telephone blackout. Many lines in Canaday and Pennypacker did not operate at all for the first week of the move in. Scores of first-years couldn't even beg their neighbors for telephone time; they had to stroll out to the little NYNEX kiosk by Holworthy to have the privilege of phone service...
...plotting are fairly plausible and, despite its obligations to thriller conventions, it says something pretty truthful about what it's like to be young and neglected these days. Finally, in Brad Renfro the filmmakers have a real find -- a tough, appealing kid whose instinct is not to beg for sympathy but to let it accrue to him naturally...
...there is more than one Comrade Lenin in our areas of ethnic conflict. After they take up their rifles, they ask for peacekeeping forces, which really means, "Be with me and help me defeat the other side -- if you don't, you're imperialists." That is why we ask -- beg -- for an international presence...