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Dates: during 1980-1989
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VARSITY 1. RADCLIFFE (bow Deborah Porterfield; 2, Jennifer Lowe; 3, Ellen Kennelly; 4, Anna Seaton; 5, Jennifer Hale; 6, Eleanor Prior; 7, Alison Townley; stroke Marianne Romak coxswain, Mary Boland) 8:07 45 2 Brown 8:13 11 3 Northeastern...
Exactly--as was proved under oath in that courtroom. And the depositions of both sides were available to the judge prior to its going to trial...
...from Pope's Dunciad, Rape of the Lock, Essay on Man, and assorted Epistles and Elegles. Johnson's Vanity of Human Wishes is printed in full, as are Swift's Description of the Morning and his Verses On The Death Of Doctor Swift. There are generous selections from Mathew Prior, Isaac Watts, John Gay, Thomas Gray, Oliver Goldsmith, Christopher Smart, Robert Burns, and William Blake, and an appropriately limited one from that misplaced Poet Laureate Colley Cibber. Lonsdale has often embellished Smith's selections from deserving poets like William Cowper and the dazzling and vitriolic Charles Churchill...
...Administration reacted with annoyance. Snapped White House Spokesman Larry Speakes: "At first blush, the proposal for a moratorium seems to revive prior Soviet efforts designed to freeze in place a considerable Soviet advantage." The Soviets have deployed some 414 triple-warhead medium-range SS-20 missiles, two-thirds of which are aimed at Europe, while NATO has installed only 104 of the 572 single-warhead cruise and Pershing II missiles that it hopes to put in by 1988. Paul Nitze, Reagan's special adviser on arms control, said Moscow's new proposal was worse from the American standpoint than...
More funny, and also more sad, is Petty's belief in the competence of American government officials. Whenever he is confronted with another piece of the government's insanity, he assumes there must be a reason. He hears about an American airplane designed to jam communications prior to an attack by other U.S. aircraff, and remarks...