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...areas of the country possess major league baseball or professional football, but it is only a slight exaggeration to say every state has a contender for this super bowl. In the past two weeks, network and cable- television stations have fairly throbbed with elimination games, often featuring heroic and nameless underdogs with authentic chances. Within 90 minutes of Southwest Missouri State's invitation, a spontaneous pep rally of 3,000 fans lighted up Springfield on a Sunday night. The Bears upset Clemson and almost Kansas...
Still, Reagan has taken advantage of our kindness in the extreme. Unlike the children of an aged parent, we cannot keep making excuses for our elected patriarch. He is accountable, and his health is the least of his problems--as well as ours. To be presidential means to possess a capacity to lead and a willingness to accept responsibility. The more attention paid to the president's health, the less we are able to see his larger failings...
There are in this world wise men and fools, humorous men and bores. And Harvard's faculty has representatives of each. But there are no men who possess the magical "teaching ability" that is the focus of the tenure debate...
Everybody also knows that the two superpowers possess enough nuclear firepower to destroy the earth many times over...
Students who work on the dorm crew, deliver newspapers, or have other jobs that require them to enter all of the dorms are allowed to possess pass keys, but College policy forbids other students from copying these keys...