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Playing for the third place in the Beanpot--especially when the contest doesn't count in the ECAC standings--is akin to taking an hourly in a pass-fail course: it means almost nothing, but doing well certainly can't hurt...
THERE ARE MANY PEOPLE Arnold Harberger loves in Chile. He married a Chilean. By his count, 100 to 150 of his students are economists there. He consulted for the Central Bank of Chile during Alessandri Frei's rule in the '60s, and for the Pinochet government's electric company in the past two years. His ties with Chile go all the way back to the '50s, when the University of Chicago, his home base, started an exchange program with Catholic University in Santiago. Arnold Harberger sincerely loves Chile...
...wisp of a girl who could whip through spectacular leaps and spins in the blink of an eye. Yet her skating never flowed with the liquid style of Peggy Fleming's; it flared in a series of brief, athletic explosions. Before one could count the spins, she was gone, halfway across the ice and midway through another trick. She never imparted the joy of Janet Lynn or pushed her personality to the rafter seats as Hamill had done. She simply whipped the bejabbers out of gravity and seemed to make it all look easy...
...himself from Mugabe's Marxist line, Nkomo seems increasingly open to an accommodation with more moderate small-party leaders, such as Sithole and James Chikerema. He could also form a postelection coalition with Muzorewa, who stands to win about 25 seats in the House but can no longer count on the undivided support of the 20-man white bloc. Mugabe, because of his support within the predominant Shona tribes, might win from 30 to 40 seats, but his leftist policies could make it difficult for him to form an effective coalition. If totally excluded from power, however, Mugabe...
...four, with their respective numbers of death row prisoners, are Texas (130), Oklahoma (25), Idaho (1) and New Mexico (0). Florida (144), the only state with a higher count than Texas, is also the likeliest addition to the group...