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While the Crimson (4-1 overall, 4-0 Metro Region) is one of five teams already guaranteed a spot in the eight-team New England Championships, a victory over Boston University tomorrow at Soldiers Field could also give Harvard the top seed in the tournament and the Metro title outright...
...window in Scotland, the flash of the May Isle Lighthouse, eight miles out in the North Sea. On that island there are still keepers, but most lighthouse have now been automated. The buildings that the keepers and their families used to live in, when they haven't been destroyed outright, are mostly left empty, unprotected from vandals, storms and decay...
Nozick said that an attempt by God to communicate proof of His existence might involve stating this outright to people or by "some underlying trend of the universe," such as the motion of elementary particles. Neither method is foolproof, though, since an outright statement could come from aliens and the motion of particles could occur as an aberrance. At present, he said, no method for such a communication has been devised...
...city can be seen from millions of different angles, and for each perspective there exists a separate city. This is a semi-philosophical, tending towards vacuous, if not outright moronic, and certainly not original, idea--which is actually true...
Yegor Ligachev, 67. As recently as last August, the beefy former Siberian party chief felt secure enough to engage Gorbachev supporters on the Politburo in a slinging match over party ideology, his special field. In a move that seemed designed to isolate a Gorbachev rival without firing him outright, Ligachev was transferred to the thankless post of overseeing the Soviet Union's troubled agricultural sector. It remained unclear whether he would retain his No. 2 Politburo ranking. Demoted...