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...same "Compton sense" the Canadian Football League (CFL) did recently, Margaret Cimino '87's tragic accident would have avoided. Prior to an important CFI, playoff game, the goalposts were coated heavily with Vaseline. This ridiculously simple trick accomplished what any number of security guards couldn't--perverting an divert bolsters crowd from injuring theorized by a falling...
...from the news media. Moreover, it should be recognized that some people refuse on ethical grounds to allow as objections. Ble an official as Casper Weinberger in come and go without somehow making their opposition knows, Weinberger as used our tax dollars to invade another country, to divert the nation's wealth from human needs to every manner and other disastrous policies. Most galling of all, tax money is used to pay for the massive volume of public statements and press briefings by which Weinberger justifies the government's actions. It is commendable that a few people refund to ignore...
...when her family forces him to break off the engagement, Avigdor persuades Anshel to ask for Hadass's hand. Having stepped into the breeches, Yentl now steps into the breach: she marries Hadass. Avigdor still loves Hadass but is strangely drawn to Anshel; Hadass is trying to divert her love from her former fiance to her new husband. And Yentl is desperately juggling the conflicting passions she feels for her wife and her would-be lover...
Reagan's rush to invade Grenada was designed to divert attention from his disaster in Lebanon. "We need a win," said Reagan's advisors, so the Yankee shark swallowed the Caribbean sardine, a ploy to whip the population into line behind the red hot Cold War. Meanwhile, Reagan vows that those responsible for the Beirut bombing "will pay." This means more U.S. troops to Lebanon to serve as Israel's cat's pew and shore up the rule of the Phalangist gangsters. The SYL's call for "Marines out of Lebanon now and alive!" evokes the wide-spread anti-government...
...destroyed an unknown quantity of aquatic plant life on which fish thrive, and forced officials to cut off water temporarily to numerous communities that depend on the Dniester, including the major cities of Odessa and Kishinev. To make up for the lost water, officials scurried to drill wells and divert streams and lakes...