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Tennis is an individual sport, where personal prowess often out-shines team success. Consequently, top players frequently emphasize individual goals...
...strong pitching to the offensive prowess, and you've got team good enough to upset Maine, softball powerhouse. Now 8-1 Maine had defeated Florida A & M, Holy Cross, Army, Indians, and Quinnipine...
...Soviets have a number of reasons for opposing Star Wars. They are fearful of American technological prowess and they are prone to dote on worst-case scenarios. Reagan's dream of space-based battle stations that could zap missiles out of the sky is a Soviet military planner's nightmare. In order to counter such a U.S. capability, the Soviets would have to expand and overhaul their entire offensive arsenal and probably undertake a huge defensive buildup of their own. The mega-rubles involved would have to be diverted from the nonmilitary sectors of the economy, where Gorbachev faces...
...later, on the night of Jan. 28, 45 pop stars got together in a Los Angeles studio to record a simple anthem of compassion. The song, We Are the World, written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie, featured, besides the vocal talents of Belafonte and its composers, the arranging prowess of Quincy Jones and the raised voices of some of the brightest names in the music business. Ray Charles. Bruce Springsteen. Willie Nelson. Cyndi Lauper. Billy Joel. Tina Turner. Kenny Rogers. Kim Carnes. Paul Simon. Diana Ross. Huey Lewis. Dionne Warwick. Bob Dylan. And keep counting...
...GLSA functions as some sort of dating service or a place to make sexual connections when, in reality, GLSA functions as a support groups and political organization advocating human rights. The Salient, by implying that GLSA is interested in 'recruiting' new members one the basis of their sexual prowess, shows that they have accepted as truth a pernicious and blatantly false stereotype. Even if there were a comp for GLSA, the qualifications would not be sexual but rather would include qualities such a open-mindedness, tolerance and a belief in the equality of all people...