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The Green defense was the big story of the afternoon. Quaker Cabot Knowlton. Penn's big runner, picked up only 41 yards in 17 carries, and Creeden hit on a pitiful 10 of 32 passes.
The Harvard language requirements is an unnecessary burden to a pitiful minority of students who could not get a 560 on a College Board achievement test before they entered. It should be abolished, but it won't be.
The Whisperers. Rattling around her scruffy flat, a penurious, retired domestic (Dame Edith Evans) lives a life of utter solitude in an atmosphere where the dripping of a faucet is a dramatic event. Her only companions are "the whisperers," unheard voices who speak in her cobwebbed brain, alternately providing her...
Behind the purely religious battle lay factors less obvious but no less persuasive. Goan Catholics were fighting to hold on to the preferential status accorded them by the Portuguese and continued by the Indian government after "union." Many Goan Hindus, on the other hand, have relatives in Maharashtra, and most...
Indeed, in taking the Rhodesia problem to the Security Council, Britain looked suspiciously as though it was simply passing the buck. The nation that only three decades ago ruled the world's mightiest empire had given a pitiful demonstration that, as one Nigerian put it, "it is unable to...