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...months ago was in spectacular trouble. Because of the rapid run-up in world petroleum prices, the cost of imports was exceeding exports by $5.5 billion annually, inflation was running at 24.5%, and only emergency loans from the International Monetary Fund and the German government saved the nation from outright bankruptcy. Today demand is slackening and Italian inflation is fast diminishing: wholesale prices in February rose a mere 0.2%, v. 6.8% in the same month last year. But the price of whipping inflation has been high. Industrial production in January was down 15% from the year before-the biggest monthly...
Under the circumstances, the only way to keep the Pudding's presumptive risibility from starting a short slide into unredeemed offensiveness (short of breaking outright with all-male tradition, which, as a Theatrical co-producer explained two years ago, would result in "pressure to present a great musical") is to make everything else equality ridiculous. That way, the show doesn't need to depend on drag jokes or anti-homophile inferences--in fact, they can be eliminated entirely. Instead, in show in which royal banquets where "the liquor flows like wine" are interrupted by would-be regicides with wooden spoons...
PUCKING AROUND-The win clinched for Harvard a second straight outright Ivy title. Harvard is now 10-0 in league play, and is shooting for its first perfect Ivy season since 1957, Defenseman, Eddie Rossi set two Harvard records for defensemen with his two assists in he game. Rossi now holds the records for most assists in a season (227) and points in a season(30). The old records were 25 and 30 respectively. Yale goalie Stenson, a surprise starter, was impressive, stopping 25 shots, including a couple of gems off Gauthier and Dan Bolduc... Petrovek lowered his ECAC leading...
...desperation, the military declared outright war and drew up an extermination program. Crop-dusting airplanes and helicopters would douse the roosting birds with Tergitol S-9, a strong, biodegradable detergent that washes the oil from the birds' feathers. Without the oil, which helps to insulate them, the blackbirds would begin to die from the cold -if the temperature remained below about...
...only reference to affirmative action, Weinberger conceded that there might be a "lowest common denominator" in higher education "such as ending outright misrepresentation and abuses" that might be imposed by the federal government...