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...machines, and video games. This grill, along with Currier's is probably the liveliest of all. Students not clustered around the built-in counter are often immersed in a game of foosball across the room. A color TV perched bar-style in the corner above the counter is the focal point for those waiting for their food...
...weeks in September, freshman John Grace reported a series of incidents--a broken window, and threatening notes on his door. The college, which has never had a history of racial tension, was instantly awakened. The incidents become the focal point of a heated campus-wide controversy that activated the student body, and prompted action by the administration...
...case was atypical, incidental to the major legal issues at stake and, for some time now, moot to him personally. But San Francisco stereo Salesman Jagdish Rai Chadha, 38, provided the unlikely focal point for last week's Supreme Court decision banishing the legislative veto and altering the balance of power in the U.S. Government. Said a stunned Chadha, after hearing the news in a 7 a.m. phone call from his victorious Washington lawyer: "It's kind of overwhelming...
Both men also concur that these qualities have a lot to do with Martin's position on the floor. As a setter he can't afford to falter since he is the focal point of the team's attack. Martin's reliability and equanimity result in pinpoint setting for his teammates salvos...
...RECENT Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) presidential election provided an unusually clear example of the Radcliffe predicament. The two candidates ran on disparate platforms emphasizing the different roles RUS could possibly undertake. Former vice president Julia Rubin '84 wished to make the group a social and political focal point for all Radcliffe women, while winner Elizabeth Young '85 stressed the need to maintain RUS as a lobbying ground for feminist issues...