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...Hernandez, 13-7; 142--C. Simmons (BU) def T. Kiler, 5-4; 150--K. Kurtz (H) def T. Cavin, 11-6; 158--J. Killar (H) def #7 B. Alimoradran, WBF (4:05); 167--E. Mosley (H) def J. Cavin, WBF (2:37), 177--Fran Volpe def G. Brier, WBF (3:52); 190--J. Abdullah (BU) def Brad Soltis, 17-8; HWT--D. Reed (BU) def R. Durbin...
...first millennium, time moved at the speed of an oxcart or, more often, of a sturdy pair of legs, and the West was built largely on wood. Europe was a collection of untamed forests, countless mile upon mile of trees and brush and brier, dark and inhospitable. Medieval chroniclers used the word desert to describe their arboreal world, a place on the cusp of civilization where werewolves and bogeymen still lunged out of the shadows and bandits and marauders maintained their lairs...
...Nixon episode came two weeks after the Bush campaign caravan stumbled into a California brier patch with Ronald Reagan, who reportedly had said Bush was in trouble because "he doesn't seem to stand for anything." Reagan denied the story, but a meeting between the two was set up at Reagan's Bel Air home, traditionally off limits for photographers and reporters. In the heated campaign environment, it seemed like a Reagan chill. Last week Reagan was in Los Angeles' posh Regency Club clearing the air: "George Bush was with me in my crusade. I support his candidacy...
When Mikhail Gorbachev first sowed the seeds of democracy, no one could have foreseen that they would mature so quickly into grass-roots revolutions like the Estonian Popular Front. There may be times, in fact, when the Soviet leader must wonder if he has planted a brier patch. The Estonian initiative has given rise to other popular fronts in the Baltic states, but its indirect impact has been far greater. It has become a model for an amorphous mass of unofficial political groupings and single-issue movements across the country, championing causes long ignored by the party and government bureaucracy...
When House minority leader Robert H. Michel went high-stepping down memory lane last week, he wound up in the brier patch. In a televised interview, the Illinois Republican embellished a fond recollection of Amos 'n' Andy -- the old radio show denounced by civil rights organizations for its stereotypical portrayals of blacks -- with an eye-rolling imitation of the character Kingfish. Then he allowed that "it's too bad" that schoolchildren can no longer don blackface and appear in minstrel shows. Finally he lamented the practice of changing racially offensive lyrics in songs like Ol' Man River, likening...