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...English Teacher Cyril Lang: the books he was teaching were not approved for tenth-graders by the school system's curriculum experts. Some parents had complained as well. But Lang went right on using the books in his classes at Charles W. Woodward High School in the plush suburb of Rockville, Md. Lang even based exams on them. School Superintendent Edward Andrews took that as "insubordination and misconduct in office." Last October he asked that Lang be suspended without pay, a request that the Montgomery County School Board last week began to consider in private hearings...
...most of the 5,000 people in Manila's plush International Convention Center, the explosion at first seemed to be a sound effect: they had been watching a noisy slide show depicting U.S. Admiral George Dewey's 1898 defeat of the Spanish fleet in Manila Bay. But the blast was a real one: 18 stunned and bleeding delegates to a convention of the American Society of Travel Agents (ASTA) emerged from the hall after a bomb exploded only 50 ft. from their host, President Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines...
FROM THE ABSURD MURAL-SIZED photos on his plush apartment's walls (a blow-up of the famous 1968 Saigon street execution turns the victim's head into a grimacing window) to the tiny pain-pricks of romance (buying lunch for screaming kids), Allen's split-version of suffering remains the same: On the one hand, he inarticulately asserts the need to end human suffering; on the other, he has a fierce desire to sprint blindly into the open arms of a beautiful woman. With no resolution of this dilemma at hand, and unable to make a choice and stick...
Forget about Joe Bernal's high-priced swimming bonus babies, who reside in plush suites on the top floor of Eliot House. Don't even consider Joe Restic's masters of the Multiflex...
That relatively plush advantage didn't last for long, as Engineer midfielder Miha Manolui took advantage of some confusion in front of the Harvard goal to make the score 2-1 at 1:03 in the first half. Manolui picked up the loose ball after it bounced off the chest of a Crimson defender, emerged from a crowd of red and white jerseys, and sent a twisting shot past Harvard goalie Pete Walsh into the net to close the gap to one goal...