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...youth had gone with friends to a winery in Warsaw's Old Town to celebrate, following a school examination. When they came out, they were stopped by a militia patrol. Przemyk was seized and severely beaten. An official statement later said he had been involved in a drunken brawl and had to be "forcibly calmed" when the militiamen took him to a first-aid station. Przemyk's friends denied the charge. Przemyk died two days later, after undergoing emergency surgery. In an emotional letter to Deputy Premier Mieczyslaw Rakowski, Poet Wiktor Woroszylski wrote that "the surgeons who opened...
...even that thought, however, could compensate for the frustration the laxwomen felt after Saturday's game. The match, which brought together the nation's top-rated defensive club in UMass and the nation's second-rated offensive club in Harvard, turned into a defensive brawl, something which Harvard had wanted to avoid...
...have happened anyway considering the ever present animosity between the two teams, but concurrent with Eliot's beaning, all bell broke loose between the celebrating Crimson and the fuming Big Red. The brawl, like none ever seen in Bright Center, raged out of control for several minutes, as coaches trainers, the reference, the linesmen and even George the Cop tried to break it up. Every time two players were untangled, four more were swinging and clawing away at each other somewhere else...
...final. "I believe all hell broke loose at the end of that game in the Garden. I remember shaking hands with someone and ending up with a hockey stick over the head. As the teams were leaving the ice it ended up in a brawl...
Economists now know far more than ever about how the economy works. But stagnation and rising unemployment have turned the current economic debate into a brawl. Take Nobel Prizewinner Lawrence Klein, who received the 1980 award for his work in the development of economic-forecasting techniques. Klein, a Keynesian who believes in deficit spending to pump up a slack economy, dismisses the rival supply-side school, which Reagan championed. Supply-siders claim that cuts in tax rates should spur savings and investment and release a torrent of new production. "Our dispute with supply-siders is that their theories are nonsense...