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...whole thing didn't seem to bother Cleary, though--With Yale falling to 5-9 and Cornell sinking to 5-10 (after a 6-3 loss at Vermont Saturday), Harvard's 7-7-1 conference record gives it the inside track to the Ivy division title and the accompanying ECAC playoff seed, And with the Beanpot starting tonight at 6-15, the Crimson has a red-hot goalie. Two periods of no offense not-withstanding, Cleary was pleased...
...killed or wounded in other incidents in France in the past year. At least seven, including a ten-year-old boy, were victims of snipers in the tense, ethnically mixed housing complexes outside Paris and other major cities. Racist harassment in Britain is so common that nonwhites no longer bother to report threats, insults or obscene letters to the police. In 1981 the Home Office found that West Indians were 36 times more likely to be racially attacked than whites, Asians 50 times...
...Republican parties or simple laziness. More people watched the last episode of the television series M * A * S * H than voted in the last Presidential election. The problem is particularly severe among college-aged students-of the some 28 million eligible to vote in 1980, 17 million did not bother to vote, while another 14 million did not even register...
...Jobs got Mac because it was a small group. Scott and Markkula thought it would keep him out of their hair and he wouldn't bother the Lisa people...
Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way, but it is generally assumed that we cannot by conscious action do anything about it: Our civilization is decadent, and our language--so the argument runs--must inevitably share in the general collapse. It follows that any struggle against the abuse of language is a sentimental archaism, like preferring candles to electric light or hansom cabs to aeroplanes. Underneath this lies the half-conscious belief that language is a natural growth and not an instrument we shape...