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Yale boosters insist that when Curtin and Andrie are both healthy the Elis are another team at least another offense. That's only happened three times before this Saturday in a 26-14 loss at William and Mary the Dartmouth game, and the win at Princeton...
...charges. Sure, they say, Charles William Eliot, who ruled Harvard with an iron fist for 40 years past the turn of the century, succeeded in transcending a small school into the preeminent university in the world. But it was at the expense of the College. At Yale, they insist, the University has been built up around the college, and undergraduates receive primary attention...
...getaway car. Bowden had no criminal record. And at 5 ft. 4½ in. and 180 Ibs., he fitted the description of the tall, lean robbers in only one way: he was black. Despite the reluctance of citizens to second-guess the police, who continued to insist that Bowden was a criminal, an all-white jury found the killing to be a "wrongful death," and awarded his widow Patricia a judgment, still unpaid, that with interest exceeds...
...local investigator will differentiate between basic and specific research is unclear. Is a physicist developing a chain reaction equation that could increase the power of a nuclear explosion a criminal? Even if he isn't, will he be subject to a thorough police investigation? Representatives of Mobilization for Survival insist that only researchers with classified Defense Department contracts will be scrutinized. But the law doesn't say that, and anyone, no matter how radical, can use the law to bring a suit. Even if this actual law does not significantly restrict research in one of the academic capitals...
Iraqi officials insist that their goal is not to halt Iranian exports but only to be allowed to increase their own. Besides blocking Iraqi ships from using the gulf, Iran destroyed Iraq's main oil facilities at Fao in 1980. In 1982 Syria turned off the valve on Iraq's pipeline to the Mediterranean. Since then, Iraq has been exporting 3 only about 650,000 bbl. per day via pipeline through Turkey, I compared with a daily total of ; more than 3 million bbl. before the war. Iran, on the other hand, is still able to ship about...