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...Force bureaucracy. Tired of running into intellectual brick walls-and afraid that some of his superiors wanted him to cover up the shortcomings of a new airplane-Spinney abruptly resigned his commission in July 1975. For all his outward imperturbability, associates say, he has a powder-keg temper that can be ignited by frustration-though only behind closed doors...
...assassin (Keith Cooper), an animal (Carey), a boot (Joe Kanecht), and a hoss (Hassan Riffat). They dress in the traditional fashion, too Bandages, crutches, stitches, broken noses and black eyes are de rigueur Florence Nightingale would feel right at home attending to the players over the post-practice keg...
...happy animal in a small cage. On the whole, we learn no more about the meaning of things from our "creative" writers than a child learns about wildlife by watching the disconsolate, paranoid polar bear in the Central Park Zoo. The brute scowls and flips a beer keg around his stagnant pool and dreams of killing someone: a perfect model of the literary life...
...below the 20 year -old barrier imposed when the age was raised in 1979. At a Boston University pub this split is literal with a partition separating the room into two halves when rock groups only perform one set on weekend nights. And at Boston College--where only one keg of beer per party is permitted--the campus has three different alcohol policies according to age and location on campus. Certainly practices similar to these would lead to an unhealthy separation in the House system, which traditionally mixes students without concern...
...engineers have constructed what seems like the most reasonable way of dealing with the cumbersome 1979 law Similar to Harvard and unlike schools such as B.U., B.U., and Wellesley, MIT has no keg rules no separations by age and no regularly used discipline policy for violators. (B.C. has an elaborate system in which resident advisors are responsible for "writing up" or reporting parties which for example spill into the halls or attract more than 25 students without being registered in advance.) MIT's policy seems more consistent and acceptable because it differs from Harvard's in two ways. First parties...