Word: explains
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...unparalleled position to explain the difference between the two candidates. Yet our institutions are becoming so large and all-powerful--through the growth of private universities and the decline of two-paper towns--that Bok may rightly conclude that Harvard's interests are so diverse that no one candidate can be better than another. We can all hope for the day when Harvard, the Washington Post and other national institutions recognize their duty to speak to the issues...
...Manhattan headquarters on Park Avenue. "I was gratified by the response. I think it's healthy." But there were other suit-wearing guests at the Seaver celebration who . . . "O.K.," Giamatti concedes, "I am seen as the prime mover of the balk." And he goes on, somewhat wearily, to explain again that he is only one member of the rules committee, which decided last winter to make pitchers toe the line. Then he changes the subject. "Remember what Seaver did at the end of the ceremony?" After a brief speech, the future Hall of Famer jogged to the pitching mound...
Defensive Line: All members of the Minutemen's front three are back from last year. Then how do you explain the fact that the UMass defense has allowed nearly 600 yards a game? All-Yankee conference nose tackle Joe Cullen is the leader of the line. He is flanked by Dan Charron and Steve Brothers...
Still, that doesn't explain why student organizations couldn't set up tables and recruit freshmen. That was a decision made by Dean of Students Archie Epps III--who forgot to notify student groups of the change--because they wanted to give "a new flair and new form of presentation" to the tabling. They sure did. The "Extracurricular Circus" was held last Friday night from eight to midnight. Of course, besides the fact that it may have interfered with the social plans of freshmen and upperclassmen who have better things to do on the weekend than read the literature...
Moreover, Dukakis can seize the initiative on the defense issue by noting the hypocrisy in Bush's positions. Although Bush is fond of using the Midgetman and MX missles in his speeches, it would be somewhat awkward for him to explain why "his" Administration dumped the Midgetman in Congress as "too expensive," or why it scrapped Carter's plans to deploy the MX in the Southwest without offering an alternative, giving it a quiet death...