Word: leon
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...advantage was built on Bowa's RBI single off Dave LaPoint (1-3) in the second and a suicide squeeze bunt to cap a two run burst by Chicago in the fourth Jody Davis singled the first Chicago run in the fourth after Leon Durham and Ron Cey each walked and worked a double steal...
Robin Williams, who seems to have absorbed something of the Russian soul while acquiring a persuasive Russian accent, is excellent. He provides all the sweetness any picture needs. One keeps hoping Mazursky and Co-Scenarist Leon Capetanos will introduce some contrasting flavors. Until Vladimir encounters some afterthought muggers, everyone he meets is unfailingly helpful and kind; he has no difficulty finding jobs, an apartment, friends of both sexes. Yet every fairy tale needs to have a wicked witch; her broomstick is always useful as a lever to pry us upright in our seats and as a goad to keep...
...intend to endorse mercy killing: "In euthanasia, somebody else makes the decision. [ am merely saying people have the right :o die without medical science intervenng." In addition, he notes, the "falling leaves" metaphor was an attempt to paraphrase an article in the American Scholar by University of Chicago Philosopher Leon Kass: "It was unfortunate that it suddenly became my quote...
...lecture circuit this month... A. Leon judge of the U.S. Third-Circuit Court of Appeal, will open the 1984 W.E.B. DuBois Lectures on April 9 in Boylston Auditorium. The five-part lecture series, which will conclude in October, will cover "The Legitimization of Racism". . mean while tonight the Saudi Arabian Ambassador to the United Status. Prince Bandar Bin Sultan, the Kennedy School Forum on "Peace in the Middle East...
...Council, Haig had requested FBI wiretaps on a number of reporters and Government officials in 1969-71 to determine the source of embarrassing leaks to the press. Later, as Richard Nixon's chief of staff when the Watergate scandal was approaching its climax, Haig resisted efforts by Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski to obtain Oval Office tapes that ultimately discredited Nixon. Critics also faulted Haig for having helped Nixon and Kissinger conduct the war in Viet Nam, including the 1970 incursion into Cambodia. Yet another cloud over his nomination was the persistent though contested allegation that the Nixon Administration ordered...