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After a time, the Brewers began to drift, as the hardest and softest losers invariably do, to the other clubhouse to commend the winners. "Step aside men," one of the Cardinal coaches said. "Here comes Mr. Kuenn." Six weeks after the Milwaukee manager had a prosthesis fitted for his right leg, amputated below the knee because of a circulation crisis in 1980, he was already on a golf course, playing, and he is eager to be there again. "After these last three weeks," Kuenn said, "you can scream while I'm putting and I won't mind...
...past offensive messages, to be vital both to Dartmouth and even other colleges as well. Even The New Republic agreed that "There is a need for special-interest newspapers on college campuses," conservative as well as liberal, libertarian, or what-have-you. That article continued to commend the Review, even while deploring its past actions, for having "succeeded where countless tenured professors have failed--in instigating animated discussions in the Dartmouth community about freedom of the press, affirmative action, women's rights, and journalistic ethics." It concluded, "Although most sensitive people are bound to be disgusted with the paper...
From the beginning, the Administration was elated by the response the peace plan received. U.S. allies welcomed it, and British Foreign Secretary Francis Pym planned to visit some Arab countries next month to commend the proposal. Most senior U.S. foreign policy experts in both political parties also backed the President's initiative...
...unsure about Reagan's Grand Tour. I do not see him accomplishing anything from this short of filling his photo album, yet I commend him for his efforts...
...wish to commend your magazine for the bold, incisive look into the terrible threat of nuclear war from which it is unlikely a winner can emerge [March 29]. The prospect of a nuclear exchange between the U.S. and the Soviet Union is more than the issue of the '80s. The control and dismantling of these weapons of massive death present the greatest social and environmental challenge in the history of mankind. A fateful juncture in the course of human civilization and in the evolution of life on our planet is now upon the citizens of this country...