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...less competitive attitudes foreign athletes often bring from their homes. In soccer, notes men's soccer coach George Ford, foreigners are often are often so talented that "the American players improve just by practicing with them." And men's track Coach Bill McCurdy says he sees no reason to distinguish among American and foreign athletes at all; person has two legs or he doesn...
Coolidge Hall looks innocuous enough from the outside. Located about two blocks past Memorial Hall, 1737 Cambridge Street has little to distinguish it from neighboring structures other than a long concrete ramp leading to its glass doors. But this perception changes quickly once the visitor ventures inside, in the lobby, students and faculty banter in several languages. Conversations invariably produce car-catching phrases like "last time I spoke to Helmut Schmidt" and "I'll ask Lopez portillo when I see him next week. "The seminar rooms are filled: in one, foreign dignitary discuses the potential for peace in the Middle...
...LANDSCAPES can be described as simultaneously romantic and realistic. His representation of foliage is so scientifically accurate that a botanist can distinguish different types of trees in his pictures. It is easy to imagine on a rock or log and painting every lead, stone, or cloud from observation. But it is also evident that many of his paintings sprang from his imagination or memory. The intensity of his colors and the drama of his lighting bring romance to his works. A single ray of sunshine creeps through overcast skies and highlights and heroicizes one aspect of the landscape. The wooded...
Whatever their future course, the widening gap with Moscow has forced Eurocommunists to search for new ideological ground that will distinguish them from Western Europe's myriad Socialist and Social Democratic parties. Berlinguer's answer is a terza via (third way) that rejects Soviet-bloc Communism while "overcoming" the flaws of social democracy. So far his idea remains vague, serving as little more than a rallying slogan...
SOME VERY INTELLIGENT people spent a great deal of time trying to distinguish between "authoritarian" and "totalitarian" regimes. (FDR '04 once succinctly endorsed a dictator friend: "He may be an S.O.B., but he's our S.O.B.," essentially what these very intelligent people were attempting to intellectualize.) Other very intelligent people spent even more time discoursing on "winnable" nuclear war. The Middle East affords just one specific example of the 1981 tendency toward pointlessness. The United States, friend of democratic Israel, strikes a deal with authoritarian (or was it totalitarian) Saudi Arabia, avowed enemy of Israel, for the largest arms sale...