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Lake Waramaug, nestled well off the beaten path in tiny New Preston, Conn., might not see much hustle or bustle during the course of the school year...
...sitting in a completely trashed room right now," reports Preston W. Brooks '86, who held a senior bar in Eliot House on Thursday night. He and his roommates had three kegs of beer, all emptied, and $60 of vodka. "It was fun," he says...
...Preston Sturges used to write and direct this stuff pretty well, with gusts of anarchic energy and a gaggle of pruny character actors to undercut the sentiment. Frank Capra was a master at building social comedy to the apex of hysteria, then pulling a happy-ending miracle out of his hat. Ron Howard, even after Splash and Cocoon, ain't these guys, yet. When he lets his film relax into hip facetiousness, and when Keaton parades his elfin jock swagger, Gung Ho is agreeable. But its relentless stereotyping of the Japanese provokes winces and worse. Its tone swings violently from...
...revealed that the group had outvoted him 4 to 3 on a key decision to lower interest rates, an indicator that Volcker's control over the board might be slipping. But only a few days later Volcker's most powerful sparring mate on the board, Vice Chairman Preston Martin, who has made no secret of his desire to succeed the chairman, suddenly announced plans to resign. In the end, the episode seemed to confirm Volcker's Herculean status...
...here to celebrate what Ithaca has plenty of--and that's bad weather," event organizer George Preston told The Cornell Daily...