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...difficulties raised by the mailing, which The Crimson revealed last fall, aroused representatives of Harvard's libraries, who feared that invalid cards would be used to remove books fraudulently. In his appeal document, Brown-Beasley wrote, "As an irreligious (negligent, careless, indifferent, lax) person as far as the bulk of your responsibilities in Fiscal Services goes, you've most likely never asked anyone at the libraries just what that particular irreligiosity...is going to cost us, but I did ask. And do you know what I was told? It will be years before the full impact can be assessed...
Betty Williams, 33, was driving home from her invalid mother's house in the Catholic Andersontown district of Belfast on the afternoon of Aug. 10 when she saw a car spin out of control, its IRA driver shot through the heart by a British soldier. The car slammed a pedestrian, Anne Maguire, and her three children against a school railing. Maguire, a mechanic's wife, was so seriously hurt that as she lay in an intensive-care ward at Belfast's Royal Victoria Hospital last week, she still did not know that the three children-Joanne...
...Pepsi in a glass marked M. Within a year Pepsi had whittled Coke's sales lead in Dallas to 2 to 1. Irritated, Coke officials conducted their own consumer-preference test -not of the colas but of the letters. Their conclusion: Pepsi's test was invalid because people like the letter M better than they like Q. Chicago Marketing Consultant Steuart H. Britt theorizes that Q is disliked because of the number of unpleasant words that begin with Q (quack, quitter, quake, qualm, queer...
...later started a church in Seoul. In those days, say early members of the sect, ritual sex characterized the Moon communes. Since Moon was a pure man, sex with him ("blood cleansing") was supposed to purify both body and soul, and marriages of other cultists were in fact invalid until the wives slept with Moon. As the cult became bigger, the blood-cleansing rites were abandoned, but today Moon arranges his disciples' marriages, and after a mass wedding ceremony in Seoul in 1970 enjoined 1,500 newlyweds from sex for 40 days...
...itself and of how sound the legal basis is for Polaroid's suit. Kodak brushed off the suit. In a formal statement issued in the U.S., it denied knowingly violating any "valid" patents, and it promptly sued in Canada to have Polaroid's patents declared invalid...