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...once into the Islington redoubt. Giles is swept into Louise's ample embrace and hauled off to a humiliating weekend in Cambridge, the place where he failed to get tenure years before and where her thesis was summarily rejected more recently. As their lives get messier, father and daughter start to turn on each other...
...during the season, Wayne Gretzky scored none against the Islanders, though he assisted on four of the total six goals begrudged by New York's grouchy goaltender, Billy Smith. In the first game, Smith confounded the Oilers, 2-0. "When we didn't score," said Winger Mark Messier, "and didn't score, and didn't score, we got to pressing. We were never ourselves after that." Wanly, Gretzky called that first game "maybe the best loss we ever had," or ever would have in the series. The central figure throughout, for one reason or another...
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...simply counting the number of pieces left on the board is not all there is to the game; nuclear war is a lot messier than that. Though experts debate the precise environmental impact of numerous nuclear explosions (a first strike would require thousands), they are certain of at least two potentially catastrophic effects. The ozone layer, which protects the Earth from lethal ultraviolet radiation, will disintegrate, and vast quantities of deadly radioactive fallout will scatter throughout the atmosphere. The original argument against nuclear war still applies to Soviet strategists. No attacker, no matter how formidable his arsenal, can feel secure...
...like, 'Gee, Frenesa, the whole floor shakes when you run!'" Hall recalls. "She probably thought it was best to make the whole situation seem amusing, but it was just like when your mother always nagged you to clean your room. Of course, you're just going to make it messier than ever...