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With that victory, however, the army began to crack along sectarian lines. At the urging of Druze Leader Jumblatt, some 800 Druze soldiers deserted. With the defection of thousands of Shi'ites last week, the army was on the verge of collapse. If Gemayel orders his commanders to retake West Beirut, fighting could easily break out among army regulars...
...Those kinds our there are not going to crack." Harvard Coach Frank McLaughlin said of his cagers after the game, "they're hard-nosed...I said to them that they hustled too hard for 36 minutes to let it slip away through their fingers. We knew that we had the psychological edge because we are the number one free throw shooting team in the country...
...also heard and read enough about European socialism to become a parlor radical. He and approximately 60 other youthful idealists met regularly to discuss political matters, among them the emancipation of the serfs. Tsar Nicholas I learned of such seditious talk and decided to crack down. The suspected conspirators were arrested and, after a thorough investigation, roughly one-quarter of them, including Dostoevsky, were publicly sentenced to death. As orchestrated by Nicholas, the firing squad was called off at the last minute, with the first three vic tims already bound to their stakes. Dostoevsky learned that the Tsar had lightened...
Fanny Ardant as his office helpmate is a wonder. Leggy and sensible, with a knowing yet modest air, she puts one in mind of a grownup Nancy Drew, though Nancy was never required to pose as a prostitute in order to crack a case. Ardant literally wears the trench coat in this picture, and dangerous activities come with the wardrobe. But a subtly knowing wit betokens pleasure in the ironies of role reversal...
Bach: Brandenburg Concertos (Archiv). Trevor Pinnock leads his crack English Concert in crisp, exuberant performances...