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Harvard then participated in the Tufts University Race on April 4, which was won by New Hampshire. Farley placed second once again, while Berle finished third in the 32-mile event. Senior John Tomlinson placed 12th in the men's 45-mile race...
Gaddafi may now find it difficult to hold onto his northern slice of Chad. The expectation is that the retreating troops will make the arduous 500-mile desert trek north to a Libyan base in the Aozou Strip, a 50-mile-wide, mineral-rich area that has been in dispute since World War II. If Habre decides not to push his fight with Gaddafi into the Aozou Strip, Libyans may push Gaddafi to leave the rest of Chad to Habre. But predictions involving the erratic Gaddafi are always risky. Last week, for instance, he threatened to join the Warsaw Pact...
...middle-class tragedy played as sprightly farce. B.B.'s virgin Caddy, with one-sixteenth of a mile on it, collides with Tilley's car. B.B. steals Tilley's restless wife (Barbara Hershey). Tilley defenestrates his wife's clothes and assaults the intruding B.B. with eggs and tomatoes. Barry Levinson, who worked this territory with a younger ensemble in Diner, has the nice idea of making a movie about what people actually do. He also has the ingenuity to give surprising twists to the taffy of his plot. And like a best pal, he knows how to listen, to find obsessions...
...glassy-eyed jurors are paid a piddling $5 a day, plus a miserly 10 cents a mile for getting to and from court. Most continue to draw salaries from their pretrial employers. Four jurors have been excused for illness or injury since the trial began. The original juror panel of 18 is now down to 14, including two alternates. If the number falls below twelve, a mistrial is likely. Carr charges Monsanto with scheming to force one through a strategy of "delay, delay and more delay...
...friends filed past 55 bodies in an attempt to identify loved ones pulled from the ship. Most of the victims seemed to be British. At week's end 79 passengers were still missing. The salvage operations will eventually refloat the once luxurious ferry that now rests less than a mile from its berth...