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...freshman, who also completed at that weight at U.S. 1984 Olympic trails, was unseeded in his new weight class at the Nationals. According to Harvard Coach John Lee, Clark too small to dominate at 134 lbs way he has at in the post in lighter weight classes...
...MAJOR PROBLEM with Sarah Phillips is the question of alliances. Although Sarah is honest about others' prejudices, is she aware enough to see the racism that makes her jealous of a childhood friend who has lighter skin and longer hair? Is the fact that she always describes herself as a "light-skinned" Black simply a physical reality, or the racism of a Black pigmentocrat...
...lighter moment, Defense Secretary Weinberger began by noting that he would much prefer to have an uncontroversial job like director of the National Gallery of Art. But he went on to defend the Administration's military buildup as well as the controversial Star Wars plan. Later, Senators Joseph Biden, Gary Hart, William Cohen and Nancy Kassebaum gave a bipartisan critique of the Administration's defense and foreign policies, amid some jovial byplay between Hart and Biden on the approaching 1988 presidential campaign. After a vigorous exchange on policy, several of the visitors expressed surprise at how prominent an issue defense...
...precise and sophisticated as Robbins about the appearance of his dances. This little romp takes place in a bright, white envelope. The performers wear Florence Klotz's body suits in black (Sean Lavery), white (Ib Andersen) or thrilling primary colors (red for Kyra Nichols, blue for Maria Calegari, lighter blue for the five additional men and pollen-yellow for the female corps of five). With marvelous physical mastery, they whirl and prance, graceful and playful as gods. There is neither poetry nor memory here, just an endless sunny...
...rural America," stormed Democratic Senator James Exon of Nebraska. E. ("Kika") de la Garza, the Texas Democrat who heads the House Agriculture Committee, sneered that what Stockman was really saying was "Let's cut off the arms and legs of the patient. Then he'll be 30 lbs. lighter and less of a burden." Farm Belt Republicans were equally outraged. Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa, in a letter to Stockman, asked him to "please refrain from sermonizing on the free market, which seems most hypocritical from a Government that has been the root cause of the current farm-economy crisis...