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...panned out. True, Ainge's bat has been unproductive and he is not yet an accomplished fielder, but many infielders (see Rick Burleson, Craig Nettles, Larry Bowa) take some time in the bigs to develop. His decision to abandon baseball for basketball costs the Jays not just the amateur draft selection they used to sign him, not just the time and money they have invested in him in salary, in coaching, in travel and in meals, but also the future services he would perform for them on the major league level. Ainge is not a prospect, he is a major...
President Reagan's nominee to head the Selective Service System, Maj. Gen. Thomas Turnage, who recently supported the draft as an adviser in the Pentagon, is still awaiting Congressional approval
...Klitgaard report elicited strong reaction from around the campus, including a disgruntled admissions office. "The great tragedy is that students here and the general public as well may erroneously believe that Professor Klitgaard's preliminary draft represents either general University opinion or even the conclusions of some individual admissions offices at Harvard. This misconception could cause severe harm to the admissions goals of the University..." a statement from the undergraduate admissions office said...
...women in Byerly Hall may worry a bit about the effects of the preliminary Klitgaard report, they want to hold off final judgement until the final report is released. But even if the next version is wanted down, it may not overshadow any negative results of the preliminary draft. On the other hand, the lure of the Harvard name may reign supreme--provided the admissions office continues to disassociate itself from Klitgaard's opinions. "Students that plan to apply to Harvard," the Stuyvesant High School counselor insists, "will apply anyway...
...doing much to persuade Doe to return Liberia to the civilians. Unless something unforeseen forces him to step down, we think Doe will be in power for at least five more years." The skeptics are not assured by the fact that a commission has begun to draft a new constitution and is expected to complete it before the end of 1982. Nonetheless, Doe's newly appointed P.R.C. vice chairman. Major General Nicholas Podier, insists that the soldiers will eventually return to the barracks...