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After the break, the game settled into a tight defensive struggle sporadically punctuated by terrific opportunities on both sides. Clever passes from the midfield found streaking attackers cutting to the goal as both teams looked for the quick strike. Sophomore midfielder Maisa Badawy played a crucial role in the Harvard defense, marking and shutting down Cardinal standout Carey Cloyd...
Clinton--or, more accurately, the Clinton team--is very clever to shift the American people's attention to scribblers, paparazzi and all the professionals who make their living off of buzz. Members of the media--involved in a business, not a nonprofit service--are always tempted to slant the story to further their own purposes. Consider, for example, that the person who encouraged Linda S. Tripp to bring Monica Lewinsky's story into the open was Lucianne Goldberg, a New York book agent. (Though her Republican sympathies no doubt had a large role in her desire to expose Clinton...
...were reading, writing, studying or indulging in some form of procrastination, a group of about 40 students assembled in the Dunster House Junior Common Room (JCR) for the weekly musical offering at the 'Dunster Cafe.' This week's performer, W. Pierce Woodward '99, played acoustic guitar while singing his clever, sometimes poignant lyrics. "Isn't this great?" enthused audience members whispered to one another. They were thrilled by both the performer and the atmosphere--the Dunster JCR, had the vibe of...uh, well...a cafe...
...Educational Forum and titled "The Pleasures of Writing and Reading Poetry," was comprised largely of material from his recent book on verse, Making Your Own Days, and showed him from the start to be a delightful figure, his manner relaxed, forthright, a little absent-minded; his delivery earnest but clever; his lanky form animated in a way that made him seem very much younger than his seventy odd years...
...needs just now is to open a second front against the military-industrial complex. And that is what he was facing after the Joint Chiefs of Staff, in a closed-door meeting with him, threatened to go over his head to Congress to get a bigger budget. So, clever politician that he is, Clinton last week signaled his support for an increase in military spending of as much as $15 billion, or 5%, a year...