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HAPPILY, director Paul Suchecki has offset the poorly chosen script with a fine pair of actors. Ed Redlich's Murph swaggers and spits his lines with the air of someone who is not too bright but whose instinct will take care of him; he's like a chubby rodent that senses when to burrow and when to flee. Alan Stock plays a jittery boy with a cramped intelligence. His Joey is more attuned to emotions than is Murph: the taut nervousness in his shying gait, as though his hip joints were connected to his insteps by elastic bands, seems...
...Edgar Grossman, an Extension School alumnus and a counselor for the Extension School's students, whose family funded the school's library in Lehman Hall, says there is a possibility of different standards with teachers from other schools, but he says he does not think it is substantial. To offset potential discrepancies, the school requires degree candidates to take ten of their 32 necessary courses with Harvard faculty. "I don't feel my degree is worth any less than my brother's Harvard degree, or yours," Grossman says...
There's also not much of a chance that Mason can beat Drinan in the Catholic western part of the district. Even if he does beat Drinan in the west, it will have to be by a large margin to offset Drinan's power in Brookline and Newton...
Because the University could not fully control the heat in several of the older Houses, pipes froze and burst, causing over $50,000 worth of damage. Savings on fuel costs were almost completely offset by the costs of the repairs...
...families polled thought it was a favorable time to buy big-ticket household items like furniture, refrigerators and TV sets. Yet other key indicators suggested continued economic softness. In September, retail sales rose an almost imperceptible .1% over August. Higher spending on farm equipment and fall clothing was largely offset by a sharp drop in auto purchases. Moreover, the industrial production index, at 131.3, remained unchanged from August, the first tune factory output had failed to rise since March...