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...senior captain, will be taking his final bows on the creaky floor of the IAB. A three-year veteran, and the only senior on the squad, Allen arrived the same year as coach Frank McLaughlin, who says of his field leader: "I suppose our careers have been sort of parallel; we've had our ups and downs, but we hope to end this season with two wins...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Farewell to the Captain and Maybe to the IAB | 2/29/1980 | See Source »

...election results underscored Canada's regional voting preferences. The Liberals prevailed in all but one seat in Quebec, but failed to win a single seat west of Manitoba. When Trudeau composes his cabinet, he will face a problem parallel to one Clark faced: equitable regional representation. Whereas Clark had to struggle to find legitimate Quebec cabinet ministers, Trudeau will have to search for Westerners. Already there is a growing fear in the resource-rich West of political isolation; and there are rumblings of separation...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: A Second Coming | 2/23/1980 | See Source »

...objectives are to be secured in advance of tactical operations. I believe that we are as oblivious of these staggering innovations in the art of war as the French and the British in their time had been of the German strategy of the armored Blitzkrieg. There is a striking parallel between their faith in passive defenses anchored on the Maginot Line, and ours in a "sufficient" deterrent. The skill of the strategist consists of neutralizing the strategy of the enemy. All the available evidence suggests that the primary goal of Soviet strategic thinking and deployments for the past two decades...

Author: By Richard E. Pipes, | Title: An Impossible Dream? | 2/21/1980 | See Source »

Last year's swim captain Maura Costin came out of retirement to help the Lowell House cause, winning both the women's 50 and 100 meter freestyle events. Andy Carson of Eliot House turned in a parallel performance, winning the men's 50 and 100 freestyles with ease...

Author: By Sara J. Nicholas, | Title: South House Ekes Out Victory In Intramural Swimming Meet | 2/20/1980 | See Source »

...There is no historical parallel to what has recently gone on in Southeast Asia," Stephen B. Young, assistant dean of the Law School, said, adding, "One has to wonder if there isn't something inherently bad about humans that something like this could happen...

Author: By Steven M. Hertz, | Title: Vietnamese Refugees Recount Starvation In Southeast Asia | 2/5/1980 | See Source »

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