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...delegates are the name of the game in any candidate's quest for a party nomination. No matter how many ballots it takes, nobody will be able to walk out of the convention hall in San Francisco the Democratic candidate for president unless he can muster support from a majority of the delegates...
...bureau: "It used to be that we said, 'Here is a child who needs a home.' Now it is 'Here's a childless couple, let's go find a child.' " Lewis fears that couples screened out as undesirable in other states will pass muster in South Carolina's lax family courts. As an example of adoptive parents' vulnerability to fraud, she cites the case of two women from Summerville who are currently serving time for at tempting to sell the same baby to two different couples. The unfettered system can also induce...
Here's what one would like to say: that Torvill and Dean's routine was more important in its sublimity than all the shootings and elections tune can - muster; that life is short and art is long; and that the skating dance, brief and evanescent as it is, represents a perfection in which the entire universe may be encompassed. Theodore Roethke described such an effect in a poem: "A ripple widening from a single stone. Winding around the waters of the world." Nice. It may even be true. Yet it is just as likely that Beirut...
...Marvel. While Harvard fans displayed "Go For It. Crimson" signs and kept waiting for their squad to blow the lid off the Bruins' home gym, the Crimson seemed a bit listless after its victory at Yale the night before. But as tried as the squad appeared, they did muster the energy to keep Brown in the contest...
...experts who appreciated the deficiencies of this year's hockey team, it must not have come as a total surprise that Canada upset the squad and Czechoslovakia trounced them. They were even unable to muster a victory over Norway...