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...watch the game. They must be used to it... UNH remains undefeated, with a 3-0-1 record. Harvard is 1-2-1... UNH outshot Harvard, 16-3, 11-1, in the second half. The Wildcats earned 14 corners to two for Harvard, and New Hampshire goalie Debbie Cram needed to stop only two shots...
Opening day, Toronto, April 1977: About 45,000 fans, formerly hockey devotees cram Exhibition Stadium by the shores of Lake Ontario to witness the Blue Jays' home debut. Souvenir ticket stubs go for a buck, cokes for 95 cents. One minor problem delays the game: the field is blanketed in snow...
...assume the passive role of spectators, watching instead of participating, recording unthinkingly and then closing their books and minds until required to open them again at the next lecture. By the completion of the term, this automatic procedure has resulted in the accumulation of binders of notes, which students cram before exams as if they were just so much other reading and not what they had written themselves. The breakneck pace of reading and exam period does not allow much time for reflection; even so, the student may get a little thrill, when, upon rereading his notes, the course assumes...
...lurid preliminaries, Sindona's trial turned out to be largely a cram course for the jury in accounting and the subtleties of foreign exchange trading. "This trial," complained a reporter from Milan, "it is arithmetical, not passionate." Still it did have its moments. The star witnesses against Sindona were Carlo Bordoni and Peter Shaddick, who had already been convicted of fraud in the case. Sindona's attorney tried to show that Bordoni was prejudiced against his client and got him to claim that Sindona had tried to rape his wife. Having provoked the charge, the defense denied that...
Meanwhile, pro-Western students put up counter-wall posters calling on the government to bring Stanley Kaplan to China so they could learn "to cram more efficiently." The Party Central Committee on Education is reportedly sending a delegation to Harvard to study the feasibility of importing other Western educational methods into China, including "Monarch notes, all-nighters, and reading periods...