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...display is obviously just another example of the U. N. calling Israel to task for the sort of things it doesn't bother to--or cannot muster a majority vote for--calling other nations to task for, Ironically, the display goes up in the same week that the U.S. embassy estimated the death toll this past year alone in El Salvador to be 5,639, more than half of which were civilians. There seems, alas, no El Salvador photo display in the offing. Nor were there photo displays of the athletes slaughtered at the Munich Olympics...

Author: By Adam S. Coher, | Title: Display Of Bias | 11/16/1982 | See Source »

...Statistics prove him right. The booters matched Brown shot for shot (16 on both sides) and ended up with three more corner kicks than the Bruins. But nothing the Crimson could muster touched the twines...

Author: By L. JOSEPH Garcia, | Title: Brown Blanks Crimson Booters, 3-0 | 11/1/1982 | See Source »

...world more appropriate to the match-making machinations of Maurice Chevalier in Gigi than to the high tech high punk goings-on of the film's other characters. Hawkins carries a ruffled parasol, and young Jules, wearing the kind of lean and hungry look that only a European can muster, follows a few steps behind her. Sati (of course) comes rolling ever so slowly off the soundtrack...

Author: By Sarah Paul, | Title: Scenes of Paris | 10/6/1982 | See Source »

Harvard lost two out of three poorly played matches to Albany State and Williams, unable to muster a single game in either of the contests. Fortunately, the Crimson managed to salvage the afternoon by conquering some school called Russell State...

Author: By Andy DOCTOR Off, | Title: Women Spikers Bow Twice In Weekend Action at Williams | 10/4/1982 | See Source »

...similar filibuster against his bill to ban abortion. The school prayer legislation, like the abortion measure, was attached to a bill raising the national debt ceiling (from $1.143 trillion to $1.29 trillion). But before the Senate could vote on school prayer, Helms and his supporters needed to muster 60 votes to invoke cloture and shut off the talkathon against the bill spearheaded by Republican Lowell Weicker of Connecticut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Striking Out | 10/4/1982 | See Source »

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