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...never had to be forced or enticed to learn. He never got an F. His main problems during 16 school years were diagraming sentences in grade school and trying to take part in too many activities in high school. His diagraming difficulties came to an end when it was discovered he was so nearsighted he could not see the blackboard. He resolved his overscheduling dilemma in high school by choosing school plays over basketball...
Monday's news gave Boston College rooters a lift as 1982 graduate Gary Sampson made the cuts, but it disheartened BU fans, whose 1983 captain Tom O'Regan was left out. Nine of ECAC Make the Grade Player College Bob Brooke Yale Rich Costello Providence Paul Guay Providence Mark Fusco Harvard Scott Fusco Harvard Kurt Kleinendorst Providence Ed Lee Princeton Bill Nichols Yale Gary Sampson Boston College
America is blessed by these immigrants. We can learn so much from them. My second-grade class this year has children from Jordan, Egypt, Mexico, Peru, Cuba, the Philippines, Korea, Thailand and Lebanon; I also have Irish and Polish and English Americans, a first-generation Italian and a child from Sri Lanka. We all speak English. I tell them, "Keep your language and your customs, but learn American ways. You are the peacemakers of tomorrow and will build the bridge to better world understanding...
Back home, Hawke's foreign travels, and his encounter with President Reagan, met with mixed reviews. Sniffed the conservative Australian Financial Review: "Many Australians will dismiss Mr. Hawke's jawboning with Mr. Reagan as a mere B-grade movie publicity stunt." Predictably, Labor Party left-wingers were furious with the Prime Minister for playing fast and loose with what they consider key elements of the party's foreign policy. Labor M.P Ken Fry blasted Hawke's repudiation of party policy on Indonesia, among other things, accusing him of "sacrificing principle for expediency...
Based on his previous performances. Watson stands a good chance of making the grade. The soon-to-be junior took third in the three-meter at the U.S. Indoor Nationals in Indianapolis last April and a year ago won the national championship in the platform event. At the Sports Festival Watson is competing against perennial champion Greg Louganis of UCal-Irvine and other world-class divers. "The U.S. has the best divers in the world, and Dan's definitely one of them," Harvard dining coach John Walker says...