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...defense was able to clamp down during the rest of the game, forcing Post to work the ball more around the offensive zone. But Post's early lead forced Harvard to play catchup, and offensively, Harvard struggled even more...
Among all the efforts to clamp state censorship on art in the 20th century, one symbolic event stands out. It is "Entartete Kunst," the Nazis' show of "degenerate art," the purpose of which was to ridicule Modernism. Even when Stalin launched his terror against the Russian avant-garde in the 1930s, it never occurred to his apparatchiks to hold a big show of the art he loathed. But this was precisely what Hitler did in the summer of 1937 in Munich, contrasting it with another exhibition -- reverently installed in the neoclassical halls of the new House of German...
...term "indirect cost," once merely bureaucratic jargon, has become a common phrase among higher education watchers. These issues have taken on crucial importance, as congressional leaders seek to clamp down on excessive spending of federal research dollars...
...fact, he has turned to the army, the KGB and the police to be the enforcers of his plan to stabilize the country. First he directed the KGB to form a special unit to supervise food deliveries from abroad; then he issued a decree establishing "worker control" groups to clamp down on black-market pilfering of food supplies. Last week he began his promised shake-up of the government leadership by going after the police. Two days later Gorbachev told the Supreme Soviet that he was "boosting the authority and responsibility" of the armed forces...
...despise Billy Bulger. He has done nothingfor his constituents. I'm gay, and he's one of ourworst enemies," says Michael Reney, 25, of theSouth End. Clad in khaki shorts, a white T-shirtand a black baseball cap, Reney says "he's gotsuch a major clamp over South Boston it's scary...