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Objectors who claim now that they still will never surrender to a plan for partial randomization appear to suffer from a common myopia that distorts their perception of such a plan...
...year as chairman and a director of his family's $500 million communications company, while collecting his pay as Bush's counsel. Bush did not fire Gray, or even hold his nose. The President defended the legality and benign intent of his aide, showing the same kind of myopia toward one of his own that got Ronald Reagan in trouble. By midweek, however, Gray had resigned from the corporation and put his assets in a blind trust...
There is no salvation for Irving in Director Joan Micklin Silver's Crossing Delancey. The star, playing a Manhattan bookstore manager named Isabelle Grossman, is made to look tired and behave with moral myopia. Can't Isabelle see that the European author (Jeroen Krabbe) who courts her is just one more serpent-eyed wordsmith who would flatter a pretty woman's intellect to soften her resolve? Can't she tell that sweet-souled Sam Posner (Peter Riegert), a pickle salesman from the old neighborhood, is the guy for her? Isabelle's Yiddishe grandma (Reizl Bozyk) can tell, in cliches that...
That's because ever since Captain H.C. Egan '05 and the Harvard men's golf team bested Yale at the Myopia Hunt Club on October 20, 1904 to win its fifth national title in six years, the NCAA title cupboard has been bare for Crimson sports teams...
...golf title, still the last NCAA team title claimed by a Crimson squad, was won at the Myopia Hunt Club. The Harvard golfers were captained by H.C. Egan '05 whose name, for some reason, does not appear anywhere in the Harvard Alumni Office records...