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...seat in the House of Lords for the sake of a constituency should the opportunity present itself once more, ventures Harvard Professor of Government Roderick MacFarquhar--who held a Labour seat in Commons--and other associates of Carrington. "He's an efficient, no-nonsense politician who never attempts to fool people by verbiage, but he's perhaps [indifferent] to the feelings of the public: he goes...
Organizers have dubbed the four-day 350th birthday party a "family affair," but don't let their anti-climactic, homespun rhetoric fool you. This shindig has been in the works for over six years and will cost the University well over $1 million. The Prince of Wales and the Boston Pops will be there, even if President Ronald Reagan will not. And up to 40,000 or so undergraduates, alumni and friends of the College will be wined, dined, enlightened and entertained when they descend upon the Yard during the first week of September to take part...
...trying to dismantle the $680 million-a-year agency from inside. A new Reagan appointee, Charles Heatherly, 43, became acting SBA administrator on April 1. In his first day on the job he fired half of the SBA's ten regional administrators in what has been called the April Fool's Day Massacre. Two other dismissals quickly followed. An archconservative, Heatherly wants to fill the vacancies with people who share the Administration's commitment to rid the SBA of inefficient programs and fold the rest into the Commerce Department...
Bloom's fastball travels at a crisp 85 mph. He can move it in or out on batters. When they prepare themselves for that, he'll fool them with a changeup. His curve was his best pitch in high school, but he never threw a no-hitter there...
...cannibas festival convenes each April Fool's Day to commemorate the anniversary of an Ann Arbor Law, instituted in 1972, which assesses a $5 fine for the possession of marijuana...