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...triumph ever over UMass in 11 tries and its fifth consecutive win. More importantly, the Crimson (16-3) displayed its powerful weapons--great shooting, fullcourt pressure defense and a frighteningly-effective transition game--against its final out-of-league opponent in an attempt to justify its claim for a post-season tournament...
...promised to send aid to Polish rebels and to make future wars short because "we could have won Vietnam in a week or two." To solve the budget deficit, Robertson favors a "year of jubilee" in which all debts would be forgiven and has proposed selling the U.S. Post Office to raise revenue...
...Rupert Murdoch finally found someone to buy the New York Post, his money- gulping tabloid? Murdoch doesn't want to part with the 187-year-old Post but is under pressure to do so as early as next month, or be in violation of a federal law barring ownership of both a newspaper and a TV station in the same city. Last week the media mogul was on the brink of selling the daily for about $40 million to Manhattan Developer Peter Kalikow. The agreement leaves so many escape hatches, however, that the outcome is far from certain. Kalikow...
...approach of Jacques-Louis David and other neoclassicists. Shortly after the Revolution began, Fragonard left Paris for Provence, but returned to the capital in 1792. By then, with many of his former patrons dead or exiled, he had virtually ceased painting. David, his friend and protege, found him a post with the arts commission that established what is now the Louvre Museum, but a Napoleonic decree of 1805 ousted Fragonard and other artists from their residences there. A year later he died, impoverished, at his new home in the Palais-Royal -- according to one story, after eating ice cream...
Moreover, Kennedy's examination of post-Bismarckian Germany neglects the importance of the "vagaries of personality" and "the week-by-week shifts of diplomacy and politics" he discounts as unimportant in world politics. In the 1890's and 1900's Germany quickly rose to become the most powerful nation in Europe, and rivalled the United States and Russia in economic and military resources. Germany's downfall resulted not from economic decline, but from the foolishness of Wilhelm II's Weltpolitik, and provoking America into entering the war. Despite defeat in World War I, Germany still reigned. Hitler's rise...