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James Friedman '80, a six-foot-four-inch, 245-lb, cheesecake victor, ate it all in 59 minutes last year...
Working out almost every day of his freshman year, Stiles captured the pole vault at the outdoor GBCs, registering a 13-inch improvement in less than a year...
...leaders met somberly at the White House. For two hours last Thursday, three more Friday and in an after-dinner session Saturday, surrounded by maps and documents, they shut themselves up in the Oval Office and argued their differences. Neither side, according to insiders, gave an inch. On the key issue of whether or how to tie the Israeli-Egyptian agreement to a grant of autonomy for the Palestinians of the West Bank and Gaza, there was no sign of compromise at all. The U.S. has come out in favor of the Egyptian demand for a target date of autonomy...
...tree down. An official of the parks department in Queens happened to spot the fallen tree and asked whether LoGiudice had a permit to ax it. LoGiudice could not tell a lie. No permit. He was sent a bill. Value of tree destroyed: $1,287. Replacement cost of three-inch flowering cherry tree: $200. Inspection fee: $25. Discount: $200 (unexplained). Net owed...
...came in a transparently disingenuous Peking announcement that its forces were engaged in a "counterattack" against Vietnamese provocations. "The Chinese frontier forces took the action when the situation became intolerable and there was no alternative," said the official Hsinhua News Agency. "We don't want a single inch of Vietnamese soil. What we want is a stable and peaceful frontier. After hitting back at the aggressors as far as necessary, our frontier forces will turn to guard strictly the frontiers of our motherland...