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This happy chain has one last link, the local community. Closest to the people, providing the most direct services, and the last stop on the governmental ladder, with no one else to serve as a political buffer. And so, the Cambridge School Committee is meeting this week, trying to decide what is and isn't important. Remedial reading? Probably not. Elementary school science courses? Libraries? Guidance programs? It's like the old camp song, where the one guy rolls over, and the guy at the other end of the bed falls out. The MX missile rolls over; you can wish...
...court-appointed psychiatrist, Dr Martha Livingstone (Adale O'Brien), arrives at the convent to question Agnes in order to ascertain her mental state and to find out who impregnated her. A third party, Mother Superior Miriam Ruth, acts as a buffer between the two. Mother Miriam (Anne Pitoniak) has been married and mothered two children, but her vocation has convinced her that there is a realm of the saints and she apprehends that Agnes...
...provinces. Said one Pakistani official who has been trying to aid the nearly 600,000 refugees in his country: "Afghans arriving from Paktia, which is 100 miles away, say that helicopters are coming in and killing everything. We believe that the Soviets are trying to create a 25-km buffer zone along the border...
...Dagmar Lurz, who finished second, had been rated too high. "I went out and saw her third figure and the second circle of her loop was short, fat and off-axis," said Linda. Her coach, Frank Carroll, said irritably that "the judges always put Dagmar in there as a buffer between Linda and East Germany's Anett Poetzsch, so that Linda has to come from behind to win." A two-time world and four-time U.S. champion, Fratianne is an excellent but vaguely apprehensive skater; she has only rarely been able to disperse the little cloud of worry that...
...that money can buy." Second, Dreyfus wants to revive the state's Democratic and Republican parties, which are nearly broke. By passing the PACs' cash on to candidates, the parties would serve as what Dreyfus called "a filter between the special interest money and the candidates, a buffer between policy making and dollars...