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...pedestrian meteorology is a lot like the vice-presidency; in the words of John Nance Gardner, "It ain't worth a bucket of warm spit." Still, the warm weather--however transitory it may turn out to be--defrosted a few minds around campus, shaking some latent thoughts into the fray of public debate. Some hot topics...
...offense with some overly physical play. Look for Harvard to turn the other cheek. Or look for the Crimson to retaliate, and watch Cleary explode. When Mike Vukonich got in a fight against Brown near the Harvard bench, Cleary yanked the 6-ft., 210-lb. forward out of the fray himself...
Bhutto's apologists say she is learning, and point to her recent moves to cooperate with the President and back off from confrontation with the opposition. She can also feel secure in her stable relations with the army brass, which has so far stood aloof from the fray. Her ministers say they are working on legislation and feel their efforts to encourage the country's private sector will soon benefit the sagging economy. Then too, Bhutto has helped restore a strong, if incomplete, measure of freedom and democracy to a country that has been under military rule for most...
...nations might protest in public, their leaders were privately pleased that American troops had stepped in to oust General Manuel Antonio Noriega. A month later, with U.S. soldiers still patrolling Panama City and the U.S.-installed government struggling to assert its control, support for the invasion is beginning to fray. Today there is every indication that the invasion is doing new damage to U.S.-Latin American relations, which had only just begun to recover from the strains of the Reagan era. Last week signs of the hemispheric hostility were legion...
...score was 2-1 at the end of one, but once again, the dam burst in the second period. This time, the Crimson scored seven times to bury the Bruins. Young scored the first two goals before Harvey left the fray with a concussion, the result of a run-in with Weisbrod. Ciavaglia then greeted Harvey's replacement, Dan Quinn, with a quick pair of goals Eventually, Weisbrod's power-play goal with seven seconds left in the period gave the Crimson a 9-3 advantage...