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...March, 1985, I went to Duluth to cover the men's hockey team's quarterfinal series with the University of Minnesota. One of my preview pieces was a column about the Bulldog mania then infesting Duluth. Some of the comments about Duluth were harsh...
Marriage and even love for anything except ballet was discouraged. No demand on the body was too harsh, no sacrifice to dance too great. It was Balanchine who first dominated Kirkland's world, and it is he who gave her special "vitamins" which allow her to dance while...
...THESE INNOCENT conclusions, Hersch constructs a harsh criticism of the way politicians manipulated the crisis by blatantly misusing the American intelligence network for their own advantage. Despite the expert opinion of a team of Air Force intelligence officers that the KAL Boeing jet and a U.S. RC-135 spy plane would be virtually indistinguishable at night, Defense Secretary Weinberger decided himself that the Soviet pilots knew it was a commercial flight...
...fact that Silber is willing to kick students off campus and make them face the rack of the Boston housing market reveals the disequilibrium of power which he is willing to exploit. He knows that individual students have no recourse against his harsh discipline except to shut up and obey. Only this time, Silber went too far; he was taken to court and his scorn for the law was, most delightfully, revealed...
...general's bid for domestic peace has been spurred by a harsh political reality: without creating some consensus of support, he cannot begin reconstructing Poland's shattered economy. Real wages last year amounted to less than 80% of 1980 levels, while net investment in industry and agriculture in the same period fell by 50% and exports that bring in badly needed hard currency dropped almost 25%. The biggest drain continues to be Poland's huge foreign debt, which now stands at more than $31 billion. Last September Polish and Western negotiators signed an agreement rescheduling 95% of the payments owed...