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...billion. The Democrats countered with a suggestion for a $6.3 billion cut. At one point, a compromise of around $5.3 billion was in the works. But the final figure was closer to Reagan's liking: $4.9 billion. "We were constantly fighting over the defense numbers," said one participant. "Every inch was a battle." Many Democratic summiteers were annoyed that the new Secretary of Defense Frank Carlucci sat in on many of the early sessions, looking out for the Pentagon's interests...
...year's first snowfall could best be described as a "thin film" which blanketed the Yard last night, although several students reported seeing drifts as high as an inch in some areas. As the annual Yard snowfight got underway, many freshmen were guilty of "conduct unbecoming of a Harvard student," flinging snow at friends and enemies alike. The Ad Board. has not yet taken any disiplinary action...
...onward Rothenberg took more to an open weaving with the brush, dabbing her pigment into a field of hatchings. There is so much overpainting and layering in her recent work that the paintings seem to have grown excruciatingly slowly. They carry a patina of doubt on every square inch of their surface. But they do breathe: light and air -- of a rather claustral kind, but atmosphere just the same -- bathe the bodies and unify them as objects in the world while threatening always to dissolve them as emblems of personality. The surfaces look as if they came via Philip Guston...
...immortal "geometric money" puzzle is one of the original types of this kind of puzzle. On first glance, it looks as though if you draw a diagonal line through a three-by-ten box and rearrange the pieces, you will wind up with a 32 square-inch field instead of a 30 square-inch field...
...Reagan's decision to have a modified radical mastectomy -- the removal of the entire breast and underarm lymph nodes -- struck some doctors as extreme. The reason: her tumor was just a quarter-inch in diameter -- small enough to have been safely excised by a less disfiguring operation called a lumpectomy, in which the tumor is removed along with a minimum of surrounding tissue. The First Lady also chose to have the surgery immediately after her breast was biopsied. According to prevailing medical wisdom, it is better to wait a few days so that the biopsied tissue can be thoroughly examined...