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Playing in extremely windy conditions, Harvard came up short against its Californian rivals Thursday despite a double win by Erica Schulman. The freshman won, 1-6, 7-5, 6-3, in the third singles position and triumphed again in three sets at second doubles with Bougas. Other wins came from Pe and captain Martha Roberts in singles matches...
...assistant professor of English at the University of California, Dale--a native Californian--is confident he made the right choice...
...they do each morning, are two of his top aides, Edwin Meese and James Baker. "The only reason I'm late," says the leader of the free world, "is that I had to oil my face." Though his Secret Service code name is Rawhide, the Southern Californian is finding it difficult to adjust to central heating. It leaves his skin...
...Lesley Stahl-and called some veteran campaign reporters by their first names. The journalists responded with unfailing politeness; Jeremiah O'Leary of the Washington Star even gently corrected the President when he said "Mediterranean" instead of "Caribbean." One correspondent did manage to break the sound barrier, but charmingly; Californian Reagan could not resist calling on a Spanish-speaking correspondent who shouted "?por favor!" Reagan left many questions unanswered, but most of the reporters accepted his explanation: "I've only been here nine days...
Maybe the problem lies in the setting: it's all too typically Southern Californian, the land of t-shirts, bikinis, flourescent sweatsuits, and one-sentence condolences and philosophies. An agitated shore patrolman, blurts; "Are we looking for a person, or a thing? Is it real, or unreal?" It's all really just too stupid to be funny. The California cop tells his men; "Stretch your minds, tickle your brains, eat fish, get stoned-I don't care. We need ideas." This sounds like Jeffrey Bloom's screenwriting methodology. And, unfortunately, it doesn't work...