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...Brooklyn streets of the Lords of Flatbush to write a script and give a performance good enough to win him two new titles. As Rocky, Stallone is the most likeable, unlikely of heroes. He projects a toughness toward the world that, underneath, is deeply touched. Standing with a blanket wrapped around him after his early morning workout, Rocky is a tired boxer, but also a sick old man or a proud Indian chief. Stallone takes each scene as if it were a long, hard blow and then slowly arises, overcoming the inertia of years of failure...
Hillsdale's reaction is only one example of the growing resentment on campuses against a smothering blanket of complex and often unpractical federal rules and regulations. They flow from a host of federal programs, ranging from environmental protection and unemployment insurance to affirmative action (which requires a college to prove that it is taking steps to eliminate discrimination on the basis of sex or race). Indeed, after a survey of affirmative-action programs at 132 schools, the Carnegie Council on Policy Studies in Higher Education declared that they are "confused, even chaotic," full of contradictory guidelines, and enforced...
...some, it began late Tuesday night, after Gowdy and Garagiola, Stockton and Harrelson, had retired from the airwaves. It began on the gum-stained linoleum floors of Logan Airport's United Airlines terminal, with a sleeping bag or blanket, a six pack, and a homemade banner or an old sheet. The faithful, the hardcore faithful, were there all night...
...photographer flashed away at one obliging couple who had shared a blanket for the night. Others, snoring in sleeping bags or just passed out in a phone booth or on a dead escalator, appeared oblivious to the mass that began to gather around them...
...knows how many millions. In 1910, a recent Oxford graduate named Arnold Toynbee meticulously described the "fiendish" mutilations and abasements. As late as 1918 Henry Morgenthau, U.S. Ambassador to Turkey, protested the mass killings of Armenian women and children. The Turkish Minister of the Interior gave a blanket reply to such plaintiffs: "Those who were innocent today might be guilty tomorrow...