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...Author Spark's fans are confident of her ability to discover astonishing falsities in unlikely places. The language stings as elegantly as ever, and when the author writes that gaunt Scottish schoolmistresses say good morning "with predestination in their smiles," nothing need be added to the description. The flaw is a thinness of texture; no single outline is untrue, but details are indefinite, as in a photographic positive taken too soon from the developer...
Against Boston University in the Arena tonight, however, such a flaw could be a crucial one. And if the Terriers have their number one goalie back in action, B.U. could pull off a major upset...
Castro's failure to provide land for Cuban smallholders, despite promises made during the revolution, may be a serious flaw in his land reform plans, according to the director of Harvard's Atkins Garden and Research Laboratory in Soledad, Cubs...
...economic planner. Thanks to bribes, the lace was sold on the shelves of even the government stores, with the profits going into the pockets of the ring. Last year's illegal take: 3,200,000 rubles ($3,550,000). The ring's undoing was a typical capitalistic flaw: conspicuous consumption in the form of fancy cars and lavish dachas that finally alerted the cops...
...teams at Harvard, however, I knew that steady, week-in and week-out performances were rare. Therefore, I didn't set my sights too high; I just kept reminding the team to concentrate on each play and each game as it came, and to take pride in playing good, flaw-less football...