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Eisenstein pits Nevsky against diabolic Swedes in brutal-looking helmets and flapping white robes. Nevsky's heroism is magnified by comparison with his lieutenants Buslai and Gavrilo--heroes on a more human scale...
...only alternative to Ho Chi Minh which the U.S. has thus far offered the South Vietnamese peasantry has been increasing brutal oppression. If the American government were to withdraw now, the Communist-led peasant movement would gain control of South Vietnam. This move would not only give the peasants what they have sought since 1945, but would also offer the country the possibility of economic development, something that neither the United States nor the South Vietnamese landlords have been able to effect. If the United States is concerned about its "strategic interests" in Southeast Asia, it should offer the South...
Yale Administrator Henry Chauncey believes that gatherings do not smolder into mobs "if proper police methods are used. If the opposition is jovial, then the students are jovial. But if it's brutal, then they become brutal." The only-and probably unconquerable-difficulty is for the cops to sense the golden mean. Could they have better handled the Tennessee rioters last week? Even as the police tried to get the dying freshman to a hospital, Knoxville police were under continuous ambush, and the snowballing continued for hours after the ambulance had shrieked...
...N.B.C. television cameraman blocked at the stairwells and prevented from taking pictures freely--though he stood there for 15 minutes pleading with the police: "But we're on your side, we want to tell your story, we want to show the public that the police aren't brutal...
...result of the streaks. Harvard's current 4-9 record hardly compares to Dartmouth's 7-2 mark. To make matters seem worse, the Indians are particularly brutal on their home ice--last season the Crimson suffered its worst defeat of the year at Hanover, losing...