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...transfixed Americans. Mostly, it bewildered foreigners. Moscow believed it was a trick to destroy detente. The rest of the world had difficulty grasping what all of the agony was about. Foreigners tended to watch the spectacle in the way that an agnostic beholds a believer who is suffering a bout of spiritual anguish; the ordeal seems impressive, perhaps, but unnecessary, odd and even self-indulgent. "The French never understood why the Americans got so upset over Watergate,' French Historian François Furet said last week. "The French in particular and Europeans in general do not have a moral...
...would be too much to handle. "The worst thing that can happen to any fighter happened to you. You got civilized." The champion picks up the challenge, but when Mickey dies of a heart attack, Rocky loses the "eye of the tiger"-his term for hungry resolve-and the bout...
...That's astounding...it seems a classic case of suggesting belt-rightening to those who can least afford it and an extended bout of generosity to those who least need it." Michael Turk, coordinator of the Harvard Tenants' Union, in March...
Harvard emerged from its bout with a determined Great Dane squad with...
...bout root beer...