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CARP has organizations on 90 to 100 campuses nationwide, including Boston University, Columbia, and Cornell. The student group has attempted to spread the dictum of the church which calls for the "bridging of the gap between faith and reason" through self-awareness...
...fogged alums and sotted students groped with one another, threw rice and generally had a hell of a time. So what if they couldn't hear Captain Comic, aka Lord Clark of Kent, aka Chad Hummel or even less from Ophelia Thise, played by Michael Anderson, who is mirable dictum, president of Hasty Pudding Theatricals. And may be there did seem to be two too many dancers on the stage all the time. Who, after all, really cares...
Following the dictum of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), athletic directors all across the country have been purchasing "possession indicators," little scoreboards with a pair of illuminated arrows pointing in opposite direction. After the game-opening jump ball, the lighted arrow points toward the team that lost the jump; the next time a jump ball situation develops, that team just takes the ball out of bounds; for the rest of the game, the all-powerful arrow alternates back and forth after each jump situation...
Anwar Sadat believed so completely in his mission that he was prepared to perish rather than change direction. And from that faith came the courage to face the dangers before him with his oft-repeated dictum: "This is my fate. I have accepted my fate." ?By Thomas A. Sancton. Reported by Dean Brelis/New York and Wilton Wynn/Cairo
...Vries' males, as usual, are not much of a moral improvement on women, proving Daisy's dictum: "Men were all alike, though, of course, some were more alike than others." Dirk Dolfin, a one-man Dutch conglomerate with wavy blond hair and dazzling teeth, possesses the two essentials of a De Vries hero: galloping lust and crawling remorse. He is as briskly efficient at lovemaking as he is at self-reproach. After a romp among the paper clips, Dirk's afterplay consists of pillow talk about eternal damnation. Then, subsequent to monologues on, say, the doctrine...