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...Death in none of its guises shall prevail over me, because I know all the names of death...
...There's nothing chicken-hearted about Graham Allison," Jackson says, adding, "He's a tenacious, dogged apostle of points of view, but is mature enought to modify or correct his point of view when opposing arguments prevail." Schelling points out that the dean's position often shrouds his inner self. "A lot of people probably find him a little distant, harsh, overbearing, or thick-skinned. To do his job he has to be--most of us are not good at giving people bad news, but as dean he is fully responsible for all the hard decisions," Schelling says, evoking questions...
...Crimson should recapture the GBCs and state finals without great difficulty. At the Penn State tourney, however, the netwomen will run up against formidable foes, including a powerful Princeton side they will have to defeat in the spring in order to prevail in the Ivies...
...matters, in the final analysis, is a clear, honest discussion of these problems. The best guarantee we can have for U.S. noninterference in Iranian affairs in the future is a thorough discussion, description and dissemination of the U.S. role in Iran. We want real independence. If common sense should prevail in Washington, [it would be recognized that] an independent, popular, grass-roots regime in Iran is the best option left...
...green-bannered forces of Jimmy Carter flexed more muscle and organized brilliantly to prevail in New York City's Madison Square Garden. But the blue standards of Edward Kennedy waved in defiance, then blazed across the floor in a bittersweet celebration of the vanquished Senator's finest hour?an impassioned call to the Democratic Party not to abandon its compassionate past. The masterly address set even some Carter delegates to weeping. In a convention devoid of suspense but filled with personal drama, the President won renomination yet lost much of the glory to the man he so handily defeated...