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David Dalton and his collaborators on The Rolling Stones: The First Twenty Years never wonder about who's the best in this business; their partisanship is clear from the opening paragraph. They see no need to justify the Stones' claim to the throne. In 192 over-sized pages of pictures, interviews and narrative, the authors and editors seek the origins of the myth and explain how it has evolved over the past two decades. Nobody will be worrying about this kind of stuff Monday night in Hartford, but it's required reading for the true fanatic...
...wrote (and Ms. Pearl signed her name to the report) the following: "The Committee recommends that all students be invited to attend and speak at both Council and committee meetings but that only elected Council members vote" (emphasis added). This statement is found at the end of the second paragraph in the section of our report dealing with the Structure of the Council and Delegate Responsibility...
...Useless Fears, sets himself a lofty goal. You would never know it from the cover: the inch-high purple letters hailing "the world's foremost authority on anxiety" immediately remind one of the rash of self-help books so abundant during the last few years. But in opening paragraph of his preface, Wolpe assures us that his book is not of that genre, revealing his true motive in a voice filled with profound eloquence: "These offshoots of behavior therapy are like the uppermost branches of a tree, visible above a mist." He expounds further: "The trunk and lower branches remain...
...starting goalkeeper as a freshman for much of last year, all decided to take 1981 off. Three more starters, gone. A week into preseason practice, sophomore Beth Carillo, a projected starter, went down with a knee injury. That's seven if you're counting. Makes for a long paragraph...
...deficiencies in the process by which letters of reference were written regarding Dr. Arif Hussain. We acknowledge these deficiencies and deeply regret them. We also regret that public confidence concerning professional peer review has been diminished," Dr. William Hassan Jr., acting president of BWH, said in a two-paragraph statement on behalf of the hospital...