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...Kirkland House resident says. "There are a lot of great hockey players here that are really into school--they're true student-athletes. I couldn't honestly call myself that without a smirk on my face. My first priority was to pick a school that would be on the doorstep of a championship. I would never, never go to a school that was going...
...sense of real-life drama that mirrors the film's content is revealed, almost by accident. An ambulance streaks down the street during an interview and our attention is directed to medics rushing into the neighboring apartments. In a later section, a woman speaks of sleeping on a doorstep all night to be first in line for the extras casting and how she constantly woke up in fear...
Last week the U.S. attempted to lay blame for the policy impasse on Hanoi's doorstep. Said State Department spokesman Richard Boucher: "We believe that Viet Nam cannot evade its responsibility to help achieve a comprehensive political solution in Cambodia." Until now, the U.S. led Hanoi to believe that the withdrawal of its troops from Cambodia would be enough to rescue Viet Nam from its international isolation. But with that formulation, Washington destroyed Hanoi's hopes for prompt normalization of relations with the outside world and an end to the trade embargo that has wrecked Viet Nam's economy...
POTENTIAL pitfalls lie in two attitudes that demonstrably bore constituents and damage the council's credibility: precocity and parochialism. For example, one campaigner from Leverett House this fall promises a hot tub in every room. Another vows a condom should be placed on every doorstep...
...Moscow could do more for its Muslim population. Said he: "Mr. Gorbachev has a long way to go in terms of providing people freedoms." Nevertheless, Rafsanjani apparently liked what he saw: he added two stops to his itinerary -- Leningrad and Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, a republic on the doorstep of Iran with a large population of Shi'ite Muslims...