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Briggs Athletic Center--which was converted last year from an indoor track with a dirt floor to a basketball court with a portable astroturf covering--suffered from minor structural problems in its first year of use. Though most athletes and coaches using the facility praise it as an excellent multi-use complex, some complain of inadequate ventilation and problems with the worn floor surface. Officials call these problems "minor" and say repairs are currently being considered...
...like that are almost expected in any new building," Scott Anderson, assistant director of athletics, says. Anderson recalls that some department officials were apprehensive about the facility originally because they questioned the feasibility of the astro-turf surface. "That worked out," says Anderson, "and that fact really overshadows any minor problems there might have been...
...official investigation of the service. UHS Director Dr. Warren E.C. Wacker defended the doctors, calling all the operations medically justified. In addition, statistical analysis showed the difference in the number of Caesarians commissioned by the two physicians and the average of all doctors at the hospital were minor...
Alas, these minor revelations-and two marvelously vigorous films from old masters, Italy's Ermanno Olmi (Camminacammina) and Poland's Andrzej Wajda (Danton)-were not enough to keep businessmen and journalists from grousing, as they lolled for a fortnight in one of the world's lushest garden spots. Nor will a disappointing festival keep these congenital optimists from returning next year to this bunker on the Côte d'Azur. - By Richard Corliss
...other two. Ford was always good as the likable, daredevil cynic, but Fisher and, most particularly, Hamill have broadened and matured their talents. In his final scenes with Vader, Hamill provides Luke with a hitherto unsuspected depth of personality. Despite its shortcomings, which are relatively minor in context, the film succeeds, passing the one test of all enduring fantasy: it casts a spell and envelops its audience in a magic...