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...weak crime- fighting gesture: "A five-day waiting period to get a handgun -- you have to get on a longer waiting list than that to buy Aladdin at Blockbuster." And his jeremiads are filled with two-dollar words that actually add up. "We are going over a Niagara of psychobabble in a barrel full of holes," he complains. "We have become a country of ragged recidivists dedicated to the proposition that all parents are created equally bad and the progeny-slash- progenitor dynamic should be the landfill for all our personal shortcomings...
Harvard bounced back though with have straight wins--beating Niagara 11-3, as sophomore Chip Harris earned his first win and then sweeping a double-header against Canisius. Davidson and Allen took the decisions in the sweep...
After falling to Niagara 3-5 in the next game, the Crimson thrashed Manhattan 12-0 as junior Tim Vanech took the win in the laugher...
...original idea had seemed simple enough. Superfund, which was voted into existence by Congress in 1980 after the national outrage over toxic pollution at Niagara Falls' Love Canal, would provide federal funding for tracking down the guilty parties and making them pay. Wielding the legal doctrine of "joint and severalliability," the Environmental Protection Agency could hold any single toxic dumper responsible for a mess created by several -- and retroactively at that. If no one could be found to pay, then the site would be deemed an "orphan" and cleaned up by Superfund's own resources, gathered largely from taxes...
Perhaps the unlikeliest stage event of the decade will occur next month in ye olde and quainte Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario. The tourist haven's Shaw Festival, one of North America's bigger and better theaters and the world's most faithful keeper of the flame for the white-bearded windbag of Fabian socialism, is sponsoring a debate premised on the heretical idea that its patron dramatist should be outranked as a playwright by his colleague Harley Granville Barker. Although recalled chiefly as producer (The Doctor's Dilemma), director (Major Barbara) or actor (Man and Superman) of many Shavian...