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...Many observers are skeptical about the ability of OPEC to hold to its quotas in the face of a worldwide oil glut. Never in its 26-year history has the group sustained production cuts for any length of time. One or more of its members have always managed to cheat on agreements. Moreover, the current plan is only an interim one. It takes effect on Sept. 1 (the delay results mostly from existing contracts that must be honored) and expires on Oct. 31. The cartel has no guarantee that its members will renew the pact...
This became the tenor of the track meet. Sprinter Carl Lewis, the quadruple gold medal man of 1984, said, "The Russians just cheat." Reminded that it was a Jamaican from Canada (Ben Johnson) who dusted him in the 100 -- for the second time this year, incidentally -- Lewis reasoned, "They'll try to help anyone beat us." When a confusion of 1,500-meter heats turned Steve Scott's silver to bronze, he grumped, "It's an asinine way to do things, but that's the Soviet Union." For welcome counterbalance, Regal Hurdler Edwin Moses extended his nine-year winning streak...
...cannot serve as a cautionary tale about today's athletes, Playwright Lawrence Kelly's vision is at least a compelling metaphor for the way decent people in all walks of life slip into dishonesty. Kelly's perception is that the Black Sox did not cheat as individuals. They did so, following the basic tenet of their sport, as a team. Money may have been the bait but loyalty and comradeship were the motives that persuaded them, some with great reluctance, to betray their talents. As Chick Gandil (Paul Christie), the sour ringleader of the scam, remarks in an aside, people...
Sadly, the University's actions raise real questions about how much confidence alumni can have in the results of the balloting. Quite simply: how do we know they will not cheat? It is terribly simple to do so--ballots can be discarded, invalidated, remarked, and no one will ever know. A University Administration and Board of Overseers that have gone to such unprecedented lengths to influence the results of an election they are administering cannot be entrusted to tabulate the results of that election fairly. Should the AAA slate fail, I for one will never be fully convinced that...
...this score, Absolute Beginners is a pretty little cheat. It promises a larkish tour of London in 1958, the year Britain discovered both rock 'n' roll as an anarchic force and teenagers as a voracious new consumer class. Colin (Eddie O'Connell) is a bright lad who hits the Top 40 of success snapping pictures of mods and trads; Suzette (Patsy Kensit) is a proto-Twiggy fashion model- designer. Sade, Ray Davies and the snakily elegant David Bowie appear in elaborate production numbers--upmarket rock videos, really--and Julien Temple, a master director of the short music form, revs...