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...clear to me by now that Trevor and the college must somehow be separated. My problem was one, which I feel compelled to define with brutal candor: how to kill him without getting into trouble." --A passage from the autobiography of Sir Kenneth Dover, president of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Trevor Aston was a tutor in the college and was known for a drinking problem. Aston eventually committed in a story in the New York Times yesterday; Dover expressed puzzlement about why this sentiment was controversial. "The whole point of an autobiography is to tell the truth...
...mission succeeded, Clinton would be spared, at least for the moment, what Democratic Senator John Glenn of Ohio calls "the Dover test." The reference is to the Air Force base at Dover, Delaware, where the bodies of U.S. servicemen and women killed overseas are taken; the test is to explain to grieving family members why their loved ones had to be brought home in flag- draped coffins. The President could claim that by displaying firmness and consistency and pushing right to the brink of invasion, he had finally scared Cedras and colleagues into a peaceful departure...
This season the team returns everyone but Brenner and junior Erica Cheng, both of whom have decided to take a break from the game, and brings in six more players with varsity potential. They are: freshmen Mylin Torres from Georgia, Geena Suh from Minnesota, Gabriela Hricko from Dover, Julia Kim from Maryland and Anna Chai from Maine (spring season only) and sophomore transfer student Rona Mayer from Israel. Graham regrets the departures, but emphasizes the future...
...story: OWNERS AND PLAYERS: WHEN IS ENOUGH ENOUGH? And WILL PLAY FOR FOOD. But so did the number of black-and-silver N.F.L. Raider caps in the crowd. "Do the players play because of a love of the game or because of money?" asked 32-year-old Arthur Dover. "I think this strike shows the answer." Then, by way of warning to the players, he pointed to his Raider headgear and added, "We do have football coming...
...plate at the Salvation Army. He had $10 left. He got the teenagers enrolled at Mount Anthony High School. An adviser there helped him with college applications. His English was shaky, but Bennington College gave him a full scholarship. He studied English and American literature: The Waste Land, Dover Beach, Strunk and White's The Elements of Style. He read Shakespeare and daydreamed about writing books. When he graduated after three years, he had managed to write, in formal and rather literary English, the first draft of a haunting memoir of his youth in Vietnam...