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...foreign students could very well mean restricting the University's efforts to bring more disadvantaged and minority students here. Will the son of a foreign government minister be given a coveted space in Harvard's freshman class at the expense of a poor Black or Hispanic trying to crawl his way up out of the ghetto...
...wears a diamond stud in one ear, loves to pub-crawl with his hometown "yobbos" (rowdy pals), dotes on heavy-metal rock and has even been known ) to play a lick or two. So it figures that last week Pat Cash would find a most untraditional way to celebrate when he became the first Australian in 16 years to win the men's singles crown at Wimbledon. After routing Ivan Lendl 7-6, 6-2, 7-5, Cash, 22, threw a ball into the crowd and then clambered up the packed grandstand to embrace his father Pat Cash Sr. Remarked...
...Reagan from returning to their old neighborhood of Pacific Palisades, Calif.: "We really can't go out that far because traffic in Los Angeles is now so bad," said the First Lady to U.P.I. "You'd be on the road all the time." If motorcades can't beat the crawl, then ordinary mortals had best sit back, turn up the stereo and wait patiently for the age of Hovercraft and rocket belts...
...safeguard against predators, the cicadas usually first crawl out of the ground after sunset. Their main defense, though, may be sheer numbers: birds, raccoons and skunks can crunch up only so many insects. After climbing the nearest vertical object -- a tree or post, for example -- the insects take their last step toward adulthood. They hook their needle-like claws into the surface, arch their backs to break their skin and then wiggle free. A day later they are ready to fly away. All of this is merely a prelude to courtship, with the male cicadas seeking to attract mates with...
Music bellowed and posters screamed..... 'Maria Pulls It Off! 'The Sickening Galactic Evil of Gargoyle the Globekiller--your guts will run and your flesh will crawl!... On monitors in the window, men boxed and played cricket, barbarians slaughtered hordes of demon invaders, outer space warriors zapped each other in fountains of gore, a caveman swung across what looked like a missile silo towards a control room in which a mad masked axeman made ready to hack up a screaming pubescent girl, and women wanked ferociously in a variety of imaginative positions...