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...game," Springer said. "I asked why I was taken out. All I did was ask a question. After the game I asked the team if a had a bad effect on them and they said, `No.' I also asked them if they wanted me to quit and I told them to be honest because I respect them and their opinion and they said, `No.' I get back to the hotel and I was told that I would be going home...
...Crimson (6-4 Ivy) led Penn (5-6), 43-32 at halftime. But the Quakers refused to quit, outscoring Harvard by 14 points in the second half to nab the visitors...
...Communist Party voted to dissolve, then resurrected itself as the Social Democratic Party. Tadeusz Fiszbach, a popular party leader who quit in 1981 to protest martial law, said a neo-Communist group had "no credibility," and formed a breakaway organization called the Union of Social Democracy...
...Mikhail Gorbachev posed for photographs with Brazilian President-elect Fernando Collor de Mello in the Kremlin last week, a Brazilian journalist called out the question on everyone's mind. Would Gorbachev confirm the report broadcast around the globe by CNN that he was planning to quit as Communist Party chief? Gorbachev listened to the translation with a puzzled look, then smiled. "Many rumors and suppositions are circulating worldwide," he said, gesticulating with his hands for emphasis. "All this is groundless. It has come into vogue in the international press to set rumor mills working as soon as we approach...
...Corn stoves? Just to be sure this is a good idea, I called Amory Lovins, who quit Harvard after his sophomore year ("I was paying Harvard, so I felt Harvard should let me study what I wanted") and has since written twelve books, garnered five honorary degrees and become a world leader in energy conservation and research. Not that I was going to let any of that damp my enthusiasm for corn stoves...