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...dispatch at the hands of eventual national champion North Dakota two nights earlier had landed the Crimson in this contest, and Harvard was then faced with a pair of awesome responsibilities...
...other war, they would have made movies about us too. Dateline: Hell!, Dispatch from Dong Ha, maybe even A Scrambler to the Front . . . But Viet Nam is awkward, everybody knows how awkward, and if people don't even want to hear about it, you know they're not going to pay money to sit there in the dark and have it brought up." So wrote Michael Herr in Dispatches, published in 1977, a year before the first spate of Viet Nam dramas. (The mid-'60s had offered a couple of World War II wheezes disguised as topical films: A Yank...
...less than his $2.9 million budget. Though the publicity-conscious Trump had much at stake in finishing the rink quickly, his rescue effort nonetheless is a revealing example of how a private developer, unfettered by the myriad regulations that bedevil local government, can execute projects with dispatch. "Donald Trump did a terrific job," said Koch last week. "We have many legal constraints on us not applicable to the private sector that often make it difficult to do things as efficiently as we would like...
...began its life supporting abolition and became one of the nation's most prestigious journals in the late 19th and early 20th century. More recently it has reflected Publisher Prentis' born-again Fundamentalism in its editorials. St. Louis joins the swelling ranks of one-newspaper towns; the surviving Post- Dispatch has about twice the Globe-Democrat's circulation...
...official Soviet news agency Tass, in a Russian-language dispatch from Washington, said yesterday that with the expulsion, "the Reagan administration has undertaken the next step aimed at worsening Soviet-American relations...