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...cram course in the new science of politics, and its first three-day stop is Des Moines, chosen for its central geographic location. To show they mean business, the Dems have rather pretentiously called their course a National Training Academy. It is mostly a mix of skull sessions and pep talks in the garish, maroon-walled ballroom of the Hotel Savery. The subsidized tuition is a modest $95, described by Party Political Director Ann Lewis as "low enough to attract, but high enough to require serious commitment. Lewis is delighted that 240 "students," a third of them women, have come...
They will succeed, no doubt. Last year at home, the school's president exhorted the Big Green to "blow Harvard off the field" at the pep rally the night before the game (the president was formerly chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission). Dartmouth...
Well-scrubbed, pep-filled, and pom-pommed, the cheerleading unit debuted early in the football season. They cried...
...last few years, in fact, they've assumed the role of cantankerous artistic arbiter at Harvard Stadium. The Band looks at sports the way a lot of people here do; they are out to have fun, down a little booze, and sit in the sun. They lack pep...
...world has wondered often enough why the British cling to their monarchy. What they get out of it. Why they need it. The British have frequently bestirred themselves to reply, sounding off in essays, epistles to the Times and innumerable speeches, all of which sounded as much like pep talks to the home team as reasoned answers to a curious-and sometimes bemused-off-island audience. As Leonard Mather, 50, a spectator along the processional route, put it: "We haven't got much any more in this country, but we do have our monarchy...