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Dates: during 1980-1989
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John Sayles' Eight Men Out, Hollywood's newest entry in the baseball-movie line-up, however, tells a different story. To Sayles, the national pastime is the purest religion in the world. And when certain people distort this religion, America's greatest sport loses its innocence...
...apocryphal story has it that when professors planning to move to Washington for the Dukakis Administration line up for the ride, the Greyhound bus they expected will be replaced by a jeep, and a small one at that...
This year Harvard's Registrar Margaret Law decided to put registration on a Friday before the start of classes, rather than on the same Monday. This was done so students wouldn't miss any classes they wanted on Monday by waiting in registration lines. Oh, wait. On Monday we had to go wait in line to have our i.d. cards validated anyway. Of course, registering on Friday was still necessary because shopping period was shortened to seven days, a decision the faculty made so that professors could assign sections and start assignments sooner. Oh, wait. Seven days really means only...
DUKAKIS would do well to connect Bush's "chameleon-like" political nature with his ties to the Far Right. The gist of a Dukakis line of attack here would be that Bush is, if not a member, then a marionette of this reactionary fringe group, just as Bush has tried to link Dukakis to the radical left...
...Harvard has a line-up heavy with veterans: nine of 11 starter return, with one of the vacant positions filled by Chapman, a back who has seen plenty of action in past seasons...