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...another gripe: three years ago in Providence Harvard lost in the NCAA finals for the same reason, physical fatigue, because the Division I schools don't have the guts or integrity to tell the arena owners that they will no longer put up with this nonsense of playing one semifinal on Thursday night and the other on Friday night. Not long ago The Globe revealed that the Thursday night winners had won 19 out of the previous 22 NCAA finals. I predict that Harvard will be finalists again this year. We better start praying that they get the Thursday night...
...purpose is not to gripe, but to request an immediate change. Two hundred-odd students will simply not learn the math that is being taught, and thus their futures in their respective fields will be harmed. Further-more, if one section leader is better than another, the nature of the course is such that this difference in teaching ability will reflect unfairly upon those students who had the pure chance of being in a better section, while the other students will suffer the adverse effects...
Most other foreign reporters could identify with ZDF's plight. Many complained that they were barred from certain briefings and often could not get an audience with political heavyweights. But the most consistent gripe concerned hotel accommodations. In Atlanta the Democrats assigned many foreign journalists to hotels 25 to 30 miles from the convention center. They were closer to the action in New Orleans, but many complained that the hotels assigned by the Republicans were second-rate and sometimes downright seedy. Alejandro Rodrigo, an Argentine working for Italy's ANSA news agency, described them as "below Third World standards...
Among ordinary workers, who according to official statistics constituted one-third of the delegates, the most frequent gripe was that perestroika so far has provided few benefits in day-to-day life. Said Veniamin Yarin, a metalworker in the west Siberian city of Nizhni Tagil: "The workers say, 'Where is perestroika when the supply of goods in shops is as poor as ever, sugar is bought with ration cards and there is no meat...
Gorbachev dominates an extraordinary Communist Party gabfest, part town meeting and part gripe session. Delegates endorse the Soviet leader' s plan for a presidential system that could relax the Communist Party' s grip...