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...tips he could from a road map. Nothing worked. Just when everyone was braced for the worst, state police located the elderly couple in Alton, Ill., 160 miles south of Carman. Everyone assumed the Graftons were lost. Not at all, said Russell. "I don't understand what the fuss is about. We were just traveling around...
What's all this fuss about Doonesbury anyway? I for one have no idea who Uncle Duke is, and I don't really care. I've tried reading Doonesbury a few times--it wasn't easy getting past that over-stylized and repulsive artwork--and I found it to be singularly not funny. Trudeau's "humor" is, at best, generic, and his characters are either stereotypes or hold-overs from the '60s. To claim that the loss of Doonesbury is a cultural tragedy is like suggesting that Friday the 13th Part III is progressive filmmaking. It's about time Trudeau...
...disappointment stems from the regrettable irresponsibility demonstrated by those Council members who kicked up a fuss before the referendum even began, and, albeit to a lesser extent, from the naivete by The Crimson in failing to expose this as a deliberate attempt to divert attention from the real issue at hand--the need to halt the arms race and interventionism. Jeff Knopf '83, for Radcliffe-Harvard Peace Alliance
...appropriations bills that fund the Government. (One includes a proposed pay raise for Congressmen that is unlikely to survive.) The House has passed eight and may approve four more before Christmas. The Senate has completed only three and is likely to pass only four more. Thus, despite all the fuss and expense, the 98th Congress may have to go through much of the same legislative maze all over again in January. -By Ed Magnuson. Reported by Neil MacNeil and Evan Thomas/Washington
There's no place like home for the holidays ..." That certain time of year being at hand, this sentiment from Home for the Holidays will soon be crooning forth repetitiously from all the mellow music stations. More power to it. Only a sorehead would fuss about too much celebration of the idea of home during the festive winter season. For that matter, home deserves a good deal of hymning all the time. There is, as the wonderful old song Home, Sweet Home established once and for all, no place like it-and this no matter what sort of place...