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Directed by Ivan Passer...
Watching on television, getting the word from a neighbor or a passer-by on the street, listening to radios even at the Inaugural itself, Americans learned of the hostages' release and felt a surge of national relief, a rebirth of confidence and hope, however transitory, that rivaled the first landing on the moon. Here was a pageant awash with symbolism and reality that defined democracy: the orderly transfer of authority to the nation's 40th President. And it coincided with the news Americans had been waiting and praying for these long, agonizing, humiliating months. The 52 were free...
Algeria's diplomatic triumph sent a surge of national pride throughout that country. Taxi drivers honked their horns in tribute to the occasion. Recognizing a foreign journalist on a street in Algiers, one passer-by stopped to say, "It is a great moment for our country." Indeed, Algeria's regime had managed simultaneously to win the gratitude of the U.S. without losing its credibility as a champion of revolutions and a sympathizer with fanatically anti-American Iran...
Liberty Bowl, December 27, at Memphis, 8-3 Purdue, led by dropback passer Mark Herrmann, face Missouri (8-3). Give me liberty or give me death. Well, not exactly. We've already seen Herrmann contained, and Missouri is still an unknown entity. Look for Hermann to graduate with a bang...
...Unfairly, Eric "End Zone" Crone, a three-year starter against the Elis and a talented passer, will probably be remembered for a play that didn't matter. With time running out and Harvard nursing a 14-10 lead, Crone took the snap at his own 12-yard line and faded back to run out the clock. He faded so far back, however, that the Yale defense downed him in his own end zone for a safety. What's worse, time hadn't elapsed, and the Crimson was forced to punt the ball from its own 20, giving Yale one last...