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...that Harvard has a rugby team. Perhaps they mean to go the Saturday morning soccer game, and take the wrong turn at the Stadium. Maybe they're looking for the Palmer Dixon tennis courts, and happen upon a scrimmage a few yards away. In any case, only a small knot of students know that a Harvard rugby team exists...
...beginning of the second. At 9:21 in the second quarter, Vargas picked up a loose ball in heavy traffic at the head of the penalty area, dribbled into the clear, and booted a twisting 15-yarder into the upper right hand corner of the net to knot the score...
...start afresh. Only the fatuous deny that too many courts, legislatures, federal agencies and universities have grown unmindful of their duty to liberate rather than constrict. Yet in advanced countries, institutions cannot be eliminated; the infinitely complex problems of crime or poverty require organized experts. There is no Gordian knot waiting to be slashed. To yearn for apocalypse and reject the real task-to reform failing institutions-is simply to sabotage one of the world's few self-governing societies...
...anger comes out more strongly in "This Wheel's on Fire." Again, there is a story, someone to meet again some day, lace to tie in a sailor's knot, but what does it all mean? All we know...
...Roval Canadian Air Force sent a C-130 from Resolute Bay this "morning" with a 3,000-pound payload of huts, newspapers, dog food, and tea for the summer camp. But a ten-knot wind made the airdrop unfeasible, and the plane returned from over the camp without dropping the supplies. A second attempt is cheduled for tomorrow...