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...another fragment of history means much more to Kubacki, the story of his brother Ray who graduated Harvard in 1968. Ray's situation, when he too was a junior, was very much like Jim's: he had competed with six other quarterbacks, learning just days before the first game that he was slated to start. But two days before that game, Ray ruptured a disc, and was never to play football again...
...officials negotiating with the committee agreed that five paragraphs of the classified material could be published, but differed hotly on four words in one of the documents. Over CIA and Pentagon protests, the Congressmen voted 6-3 to declassify them. Though the sentence fragment is now in the public domain, no one with any authority would identify it. But speculation was that the four words were "and greater communications security." The phrase referred to one of the preparations made by Egypt in the days before the war. CIA Director William Colby explained that the innocuous-seeming words could give experts...
Though some congressional critics think the aid total too high, particularly for Israel, the opposition Kissinger faces is mild compared with the criticism that Egypt's Sadat is getting from his supposed Arab friends. Syria's President Hafez Assad called the agreement "a serious attempt to fragment and weaken the Arab front." George Habash, leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, was more vitriolic. Habash, who is boycotting the Palestine Liberation Organization because he considers the P.L.O. too moderate, predicted that the Arab masses would soon "turn Sadat and his agreement into an irrelevant moment...
...writes most of her own songs, filling pads of paper with words. Sometimes a fragment bursts into several paragraphs. When that happens, Phoebe hums a tune and sets it to music. Most of her early compositions are sad, reflecting disappointment in herself, especially with her looks...
...science seemed especially dismal to Karl Marx, who damned capitalism as an inhuman system in which "all that is holy is profaned." He charged that it tended to "mutilate the laborer into a fragment of a man, degrade him to the level of appendage of a machine." In The Communist Manifesto (1848), Marx and Frederick Engels conceded that capitalism "has created more massive and more colossal productive forces than have all preceding generations together." Nonetheless, Marx prophesied that capitalism would destroy itself: "Capitalist production begets, with the inexorability of a law of Nature, its own negation...