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...captain Peter Predun's last final exam, the following Wednesday will provide yet another chance for the academic and athletically talented senior to showcase a selection of the skills he possesses as the stickmen make their first-ever appearance in the NCAA lacrosse playoffs against a still-unannounced foe...
...just about any other grouping of sovereign states. The U.S. is its center, with Europe and Japan on the wings, a balancing act that would ordinarily defy all laws of international gravity. It is much more than a polygamous military marriage of convenience in the face of a common foe, and more than an economic bonding. The alliance is based on a common commitment to democracy and, in the case of all but Japan, on a shared cultural heritage...
...speech to the newspaper editors, Carter escalated his campaign to win a diplomatic victory on the home front over an unlikely foe: the American athletes who still wanted to go to the Olympic Games in Moscow this summer. The President said that a decision by the U.S. Olympic Committee to send a team would harm American interests by seeming to condone the Soviets' invasion of Afghanistan. Said Carter: "If legal actions are necessary to enforce the decision not to send a team to Moscow, I will take them." No need. Meeting in Colorado Springs, Colo., the U.S.O.C. voted...
Cambridge in April has as good a claim to the title "Windy city" as Chicago ever did, and the unnelling effect of Soldiers Field only serves to heighten that claim. The Crimson harriers battled that wind, injuries, and perennial foe Northeastern to win their opening home meet yesterday...
Reagan won 40% of the Wisconsin Republican vote, an impressive share considering the size of the turnout, the state's liberal traditions and his limited campaign time. George Bush, his leading foe, invested a full week's campaigning but won only 31% and no delegates; in conservative Kansas, Reagan as expected walloped Bush 63% to 13% (Anderson got 18% there...