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Lights will brighten up Harvard Stadium for the first time in its 80-year history when the Olympic soccer trials come to town this summer...
Cozza says he hopes so and adds that two successful freshman squads in a row should brighten the future...
School districts have devised a variety of imaginative and promising strategies to challenge the unchallenged and to brighten the best. New York State is considering a proposal that would require foreign language proficiency by ninth grade. Tennessee has approved a program that will award "honors diplomas" to students who voluntarily complete an accelerated course of study with strong emphasis on English, math, science, arts and foreign languages. Louisiana has opened a residential state school in Natchitoches for students gifted in math, science and the arts, modeled on North Carolina's boarding school. In Iowa, where only 1,500 students...
...until the late '60s, with a new record company and a heavier country inflection, did things brighten again. He became a big country star, but - as if he were enacting a cycle of celebrity and retribution - things fell apart again. He had lost Myra, remarried, and lost his new wife too. He was sometimes arrested now, and often suffered from alcoholic and pharmacological excess. He was frequently sued by ex-wives, former employees and miscellaneous creditors, and plagued on several occasions by liens from Internal Revenue. In 1981 he nearly died from a perforated stomach. Jerry Lee Lewis...
...when he arrives next week. As leader of West Germany's center-right coalition of his own Christian Democratic Union and Genscher's tiny but pivotal Free Democratic Party, Kohl stands ideologically closer to Reagan than did Schmidt. Nevertheless, Kohl faces formidable obstacles in his bid to brighten the relationship with Washington. West Germany is suffering its worst economic troubles in 30 years, and that fact severely restricts Kohl in working out nagging differences with the U.S. Sharp disagreements, inherited from Schmidt's days, remain focused on the Soviet pipeline controversy, nuclear defense policy and recent...