Word: counters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...every stage in his presidential bid, Sen. Paul Simon (D-III.) has run counter to conventional political wisdom, and, sad to say, such "wisdom" may actually carry the day on Super Tuesday and the rest of the primaries that will follow...
...about compulsory figures. Some skaters and officials argue that figures are tedious to perform and consume practice time that could be better devoted to freestyle skating. Critics would like to see the figures count for less than 30% of the final mark, or perhaps even dropped. Others counter that trying to skate without mastering figures is like trying to write without learning the alphabet...
...marker notes the 1960 Woolworth's sit-ins by black North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University students. "Sure, you can't come in here as a black man and not feel a sense of history," says Terry Woods, a technician, as he sits at a once segregated lunch counter. "We get along with whites here," says Woods, 33. "I am not going to vote for a man because of the color of his skin." But, he adds, "I do like Jesse, because I like to think that one day a black man will be there...
...second-year member of a student council that rarely engages in heated debate, I was pleasantly surprised when Sever 113 resounded with arguments and counter-arguments last Sunday night. However, I was disappointed with one of the arguments employed. Opponents of the resolution asserting that "final clubs, which currently bar all women from membership, are an embarassment to the Harvard Community..." argued that council members do not have the right to take a stand on this issue because they were not elected as political representatives...
First of all, its title, Cocksucker Blues, is fun to say. It makes the girl at the ticket counter blush at you, and one finds it scrawled on the walls of the bathroom. It's also, I admit, fun to print in newspapers, especially considering that local papers chickened out this week and puzzled thousands with mysterious reviews of "CS Blues" (Caribou Shit? Carrot Sticks? Carbon Sulfate...