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...Bloody Monday" usually turned into a brawl, and it escalated each year in violence until 1860, when the Faculty outlawed its existence...
...minority students, gays, foreign students and others who do not quite fit the model of Gidget Goes to College. Some campus officials are alarmed by the growing evidence of racism among today's students. The University of Massachusetts at Amherst became infamous for racial tension when an October 1986 brawl injured ten students. Now U. Mass.-Amherst freshmen are shown a video about racism and abusive behavior, and this fall's new students' convocation will include remarks concerning the "celebration of differences...
...fortune made, Bentsen returned to politics in 1970, taking on a fellow Democrat and populist icon, Senator Ralph Yarborough. With the help of the L.B.J.-Connally wing of the party, Bentsen won the primary in a brawl that was messy even by Texas standards. Bentsen linked Yarborough with antiwar demonstrations and ran commercials of the uproar outside the 1968 Democratic Convention to make his point. He labeled Senator Edmund Muskie, who came to campaign for Yarborough, an ultra-liberal. Yarborough kicked up dust as well, calling the Bentsens a family of land frauds and exploiters, a reference to lawsuits that...
...miles south of the Rio Grande, P.R.I. officials claimed 3,379 votes for Salinas, but reporters from the Monterrey- based newspaper El Norte who had been monitoring the balloting claimed that only one-third that number had turned out to vote. In the barrio of Colonia Pancho Villa, a brawl broke out after the polls closed when P.R.I. officials physically ejected opposition representatives who were supposed to observe the ballot count. Elsewhere, there were charges that "galloping brigades" of up to 80 people had charged polling stations to stuff ballot boxes. Some poll watchers claimed that the indelible ink applied...
...never written a novel.) There's a similar use of ellipsis. "A Small, Good Thing" has the seductively simple ring of Hemingway titles like "The End of Something" and "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place." And the men in Where I'm Calling From hunt, fish, drink and brawl. But although Hemingway's men adopt a tough exterior in order to hide when life or women get them down, Carver's men remain vulnerable, as husbands or fathers, and risk compassion...