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...labeling every member of the Harvard squad as a bum, without discriminating between one player or the next. Harvard misfortune produced more glee. My father endured through close to four quarters of the Yale partisanship behind us, until the last few moments when I noticed he had begun to cheer for Harvard. When Mike Lynch kicked his famous (or infamous) field goal my father turned around and winked at the glum Yale...
...Shepard lateral to Mike Calabrese, the vanguard of solidarity, gave Engels and Bakunin something to cheer about. Even Mao would have chuckled in his crystal crypt...
WHEN A MEMBER of the First Transkei Battalion steps forward today to replace the South African flag with the newly independent nation's ochre, green and white one, the ceremony will differ markedly from Mozambique's independence celebration almost exactly two years ago. In Mozambique, a cheering crowd heard President Samora Machel describe his people's lengthy struggle for liberation from the Portuguese colonists and his party's program for development and participatory democracy. Today in the Transkei, buried in the heart of apartheid South Africa, no one will cheer the new prime minister as he shakes hands with South...
...2000.Third World countries, for example, are expected to double or treble agricultural output. Another assumption is that North America and Japan will double aid to Third World nations and accept more exports from them. Even if such changes prove slow in coming, there is at least some cause for cheer in the suggestion that the globe's natural treasures may not run out as soon as the pessimists have forecast...
...with the significant and, even by standards less strict than Hemingway's, flunks in prose style. Yet she is an indispensable witness. Nobody else could record that even when things were at their best during the writing of The Old Man and the Sea, Hemingway confessed: "I can cheer up everybody except me." She reveals his pain together with her own-which was sharpened by the knowledge that she could not help. Even so, Mrs. Hemingway has also written a decisive chapter in the history of women who do time as artists' handmaidens As usual, her husband...