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...once you complete your spring exams, your fancy might turn to a friendly game of frisbee in the yard. But after a few minutes, a College official will direct you to take you game over to Tercentenary Theater. Does Harvard, as the Handbook says, want you to refrain from playing, "boisterous games in the yard," or does the University prefer that you trample on the grass in the area where Commencement will be held...
...start of the meeting, Gorbachev spoke, with only minor interruptions, for 1 hr. 45 min. "Maybe I'm taking too long," he said, "but maybe it's worth it for the world that we spend three or four hours together." He said he hoped that Congress would refrain from applying embargoes against East-bloc nations. He gave no ground on the shooting of the U.S. officer in East Germany and was noncommittal about the possibility of increasing Jewish emigration. He sarcastically lamented that the American press depicts Soviet citizens as "living in caves"--to which Massachusetts Congressman Silvio Conte responded...
Well before the ground fighting erupted last week, both sides had broken an agreement, arranged nine months ago by the United Nations, to refrain from hitting civilian targets. Iraq, desperate to break the prevailing stalemate, was first to violate the accord with air raids against Iranian cities and towns. The response was swift: sirens wailed in Baghdad as Iranian jets swooped in, hitting a huge housing development called Saddam City. In the various attacks on civilians, at least 500 people were killed on both sides...
...sociability with built-in defenses and proscribed limits. At another table some post-'60s people visiting from St. Cloud for the centennial celebration are talking about sharing their feelings. But their "sharing" is as formal and ritualized as the jokes of the coffee crowds, or the refrain echoing around John's Place, where retired farmers with bits of fingers and hands lost to farm machinery and ears warmed by highly idiosyncratic Minnesota caps play whist and pinochle all the wintry days and repeat as an incantation: "One thing for sure, it's going to be warmer...
Budget Director David Stockman said it first when he unveiled the Administration's proposals for radical cuts in domestic spending. Treasury Secretary James Baker picked up the refrain in Senate testimony. But no one has voiced the argument against federal revenue sharing more often or more forcefully than Ronald Reagan. He said it again last week when he met with the National Governors' Association at the White House: "There's simply no justification for the Federal Government, which is running a deficit, to be borrowing money to be spent by state and local governments, some of which are now running...