Word: oed
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...purpose of the program, according to Joe O'Connell, a spokesman for the U.S. Information Agency (USIA), was "to train Afghans in journalism. We thought there was a problem. The Afghan people had no way to tell the story of Soviet occupation," said O'Connell. "We wanted to help them do it for themselves," he said...
...Afghan project was open to bidding and B.U. was granted rights and finances. "B.U. was the best equipped bidder," said O'Connell. "They had already engaged in journalism training...
...Springfield attack dominated, keeping the ball in its offensive end. The Crimson defense, led by sweeper Lynn Frangione and fellow defensewoman Erin O'Brien, had to be sharp to contain an ever-threatening Springfield squad...
CALL in the Catholic Church. Call in the National Guard. It's perhaps the most absurd statement by a college administrator in what is undoubtably the most absurd administrative scandal of the decade--Boston University's 11 o'clock parietal rules. When asked how students' sexual activity would be affected by the rules, B.U. Dean of Students Ron Carter said, "Students can have sex before 11:00 p.m. and after that they can play with themselves...
FACED with the specter of this violent, autocratic Silber, determined to destroy your social life, what would you do? The first thing that popped into my mind was to send thousands of angry students to Silber's house each night at 11 o'clock to make sure he was safe in his room and didn't have any after-hours guests...