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...left-leaning loyalties were hard to sustain through the malaise of the late seventies. In the 1980 election, during my year as Crimson editorial chairman, in a final gasp of last-ditch leftism, we endorsed the maverick candidacy of Barry Commoner. Having criticized what we saw as the Carter administration’s dangerous and ineffective turn to the right in the aftermath of the Iranian hostage crisis and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, we thought that endorsing the Democrat would be hypocritical. For our purity, we got eight years of Ronald Reagan...
...northeastern town of Trincomalee; at least 10 people died. On April 27, at least five soldiers were killed in two landmine blasts. The same day, the decapitated bodies of five young men thought to be Tamils-two with their hands tied behind their backs-were found in a ditch near a rubber plantation outside Colombo. The death toll from the past three weeks of bloodletting: around...
Only twice did Columbia runners reach scoring position, and each time they were left stranded. In the first, the Lions got runners to first and third before Watkins got Valerie Smith to ground out to third. Columbia mounted a last-ditch rally in the seventh, getting a runner to second with two outs, but Watkins again snuffed the Lions by inducing a ground ball to third...
...last-ditch effort to galvanize Iraqi pols, Rice and Straw traveled to Baghdad together over the weekend in the hopes that their combined clout would make an impact where individual visits, calls and messages through envoys had failed. To keep their mission secret, they waited until well after dark Saturday to take off from Liverpool, where Straw had been showing Rice around his constituency. They used Rice?s 757 and, knowing that Straw was suffering from a lingering bronchial infection, she insisted he sleep on the pull-out bed in her cabin. To his embarrassment, Straw learned only the next...
Dever feels overrun and doesn't mind who knows it. He relates a story about a recent visit by a television crew that arrived in his office and asked whether he was aware that a group of presumably illegal aliens was camped out in a drainage ditch next to the sheriff's headquarters. Sensing a story, the crew wondered if he was embarrassed by the aliens' presence. A plainspoken man, Dever said he was not the least bit embarrassed. Their presence, he said, illustrated quite pointedly just how pervasive the problem...