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...Well, they haven't quit all season long, and the home finale should be special for the seniors," the Hoop God said slowly. "and my brother Peter could use a beating every once in a while...Yes, I think I'll do that...
...helm of the 70% black school system, Roussell alienated whites by, among other things, revising the "tracking" system that had long channeled black students into lower-level courses. After the board's six white members voted to get rid of Roussell last December, five black board members quit in protest. Last week's boycott ended after five days, when Roussell appealed to the students to return to class. But biracial talks to determine his future broke down with no resolution of the impasse...
...detained in solitary confinement for 586 days and was also banned for five years, which meant he was prohibited from being with more than one other person at a time and required to report to a police station once a week. From 1969 to 1975, Magubane was forced to quit journalism because of the restrictions imposed by the government...
...Sandinistas have not changed their Marxist ways altogether. U.N.O. poll watchers assigned to monitor the ballot counting have complained of harassment by members of the Interior Ministry urging them to quit the party. Those who comply are rewarded with perks like free coupons for gasoline. Diehards who refuse such blandishments are threatened with loss of jobs or property...
...first thing Mstislav Rostropovich did in Moscow last week was go to Novodevichy Cemetery. "To make my tears for my dearest friends," as he told one interviewer. The great cellist laid flowers on the grave of Dmitri Shostakovich, who once taught him composition (Rostropovich quit the Moscow Conservatory when Shostakovich was dismissed for having offended Stalin's sensibilities). He laid more at the graves of Sergei Prokofiev, David Oistrakh and Emil Gilels. The next day, at another cemetery, he paid his respects to his mother Sofia and to Andrei Sakharov, whom he called "the greatest man of the 20th century...