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...Noriega and a return to democracy. The demonstrators ; constructed barricades of burning rubbish and tires, and fought pitched battles with squads of riot police nicknamed "Dobermans." At noon and 6 p.m. each day middle-class protesters hung out of their windows, waving white handkerchiefs and making an antigovernment racket by beating on pots and pans...
...that noise is not a power saw in full throttle. The 17- year cicadas are here again, creating a racket and messing up backyards...
...Business schools have this nice racket where every time someone who has graduated from the school gets in trouble, people will throw money at the problem," Vogel says. "I think it's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. I think it's sort of a parody--the notion of throwing money at problems went out with the sixties. I think that schools are setting themselves up to be made fools...
PERCY HAS a computer in his head, apparently. More unfolds the water-supply plot with the symmetry and cunning of a Creole Hercule Poirot. But agents more intimidating than Bionic Bridge players lie at the end of the molar-mystery. More discovers a kiddie-porn racket which Percy depicts too graphically for my taste...
...give Vigna a racket and put her behind in a match and she is absolutely magical on the court. In yesterday's dual meet with Syracuse (won by Harvard, 9-0), Vigna twice fell behind to her number-one opponent Kathy Bradford. First, she dropped the opening set to Bradford, 7-5. But Vigna expected this. "I knew when I walked out on the court that it would be a three-setter," she said...