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...University Interscholastic League. The league sponsors 22 contests a year, and Lisa wants desperately to earn a top rating in Division One for her Little Joe flips, reverse figure-eights and, even more important, for a combination of style, smile and sex appeal that is known among twirlers as flash. A Division One finish would mean a chance to make the Huntsville High twirling line next spring. In Texas, being on the twirling line is about as "in" as a high school girl can get. "On Friday nights when the twirlers are on the field, you just want...
...politicians got to work. A lot of them showed up in Cambridge for the dedication of the Kennedy School of Government--although Jimmy Carter and Tip O'Neill were conspicuous by their absence. There was a flash of April anger, as protesters denounced the naming of the school's library after an industrialist who had made his fortune in the South African gold trade. Mark Smith, a black senior, rose to address the crowd on the issue, and he spoke with power and elegance. The crowd applauded and left, to don their tuxes and gowns for the formal ball that...
Harvard's men's soccer is a disgrace, and the successful women's program only serves to emphasize this fact. It has all the flash of a first class program, but the results do not come because Ford is a lot of empty rhetoric. In addition, every year the program drops players who simply refuse to deal with a coach they find neither understanding nor a winner...
...crowds, and new posters blossomed, finding fault with Chairman Hua personally. Even more startling, both Taiwan and the U.S., once derided for their capitalist faults, were held up by orators as models of economic progress that China would do well to emulate. Given all this, foreign embassies began to flash home word of major impending developments, including perhaps the possibility of a new line-up in Peking's Politburo. Whatever happens, the results seem likely to secure further the power of Teng Hsiao...
Coach Carole Kleinfelder started two freshmen and two sophomores along with junior Caryn Curry in the season opener. The Crimson's inexperience showed plainly in the first half, as UMass rolled to a 39-17 lead at the half, paced by 20 points from flash forward Susan Peters...