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EVERY EXAM PERIOD AT Harvard, the scene is repeated dozens of times: Student takes seat, proctor distributes exam and blue book, proctor paces to and fro, keeps time, escorts student to bathroom, collects test from student...
Losses on both sides were estimated at more than 400 dead and 2,000 wounded. But in the to-and-fro of battle, no accurate casualty assessment was really possible. Cease-fires were announced but not kept; the International Committee of the Red Cross repeatedly tried and failed to enter the areas to evacuate the injured. Eventually, it managed to bring out 32 wounded Palestinians, but many others were left behind without medical attention. According to some accounts, several Palestinians who had been taken to a hospital were slain in their beds by Amal militiamen. Amal leaders in turn charged...
...those willing to brave the proverbial "dirt waters," the Charles is a veritable playground. Crew shells zip up and down, sailors tack to and fro bikers crust along the edges...
...expresses more than just respect, a fondness for Mike Bossy, Bryan Trottier and especially Denis Potvin of the crumbling Islander dynasty. Mimicking strikeout Pitchers Steve Carlton and Nolan Ryan, Bossy and Gretzky pass the three-goal hat-trick record to and fro. But Gretzky is most conscious of the defenseman Potvin, and not only because Potvin is one of those formidable superstructures whose presence on any side of the ice sends the pacifists to the other. Two years ago, in a slip that irritated New York fans, Gretzky referred to the Montreal Canadiens as hockey's greatest team when...
...check on Nicaragua's Sandinista leaders, or both. Just as regularly, the Administration has insisted that the contra war, in which some 5,000 Nicaraguans died last year, provides Washington with essential leverage in its efforts to moderate the Sandinistas' excesses. Last week the policy to and fro resumed as Congress began considering a White House request for $14 million to fund the contras...