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Harvard could not recover from this explosion. Despite committing five errors in the ballgame, Providence hung...
...seemed a straightforward assignment for the high-tech wizards in naval intelligence. They were alerted that the North Korean freighter Dae Hung Ho had sailed with a reputed cargo of Scud-C ballistic missiles bound ultimately for Syria, and they were told to track it. Last week an eager faction in the National Security Council and the State Department leaked word that the U.S. was determined to intercept the freighter and search its hold as it made its way from the Indian Ocean toward the Persian Gulf, where U.S. naval vessels were patrolling to enforce the U.N. embargo against Iraq...
...embarrassment -- to little avail. "There are a lot of arms sales going on in the world that we don't like," he told reporters, "but that doesn't mean we have the legal authority to stop them." Nonetheless, Williams said, the Navy made every effort to track the Dae Hung Ho. "It would have been nice to have found it," he added...
...right word for Lautrec's art is not directly translatable: faisande, the strong gaminess, caused by rot, of a well-hung pheasant. It is everywhere in his work. You see it in the smearily defiant look and plunging neckline of La Goulue barging into the Moulin Rouge on the arms of her two women companions; in the arrogant set of Aristide Bruant's head above the bogus worker's costume he wore to perform his argot songs. It is written all over the seamed face and pouched eyes of the English tourist who has just accosted a pair of girls...
Twenty-five Leverett House residents bared their feelings last night in an open discussion about student-produced, nude figure drawings hung in their dining hall about two weeks...