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...Fraternity men and sorority women built Colby," Clark wrote. "Colby may not want fraternities and sororities any longer. Colby may desire to get rid of fraternities, but fraternities may not want to be rid of Colby...
...When I play, I'm getting rid of all my frustration. I need to run and get all my animosity out," said Ernest Green...
...David Pritchard and Suzanne Jill Levine proceeds vigorously. Imaginative enchantments pop up everywhere: the ballroom at Marulanda, where the real exits, amid a host of trompe l'oeil imitations, are considered false; the elaborately thwarted arabesque performed by a wife who offers her husband younger women to be rid of him, while he in turn grows ever more grateful and faithful...
...then can any nuclear nation get rid of the rods? U.S. nuclear plants have temporarily been storing their freshly removed fuel rods in on-site "swimming pools." But 27 years after the first commercial reactor went on line in Shippingport, Pa., no permanent disposal system has been adopted. The pools at America's older reactors are getting crowded, and plant owners as well as the public are becoming worried. Concedes Carl Walske, president of the Atomic Industrial Forum: "The public's chief concern about nuclear energy revolves around the waste problem...
...Duarte stresses conciliation and optimism as the answer to El Salvador's bloody woes. If elected, Duarte promises to speed up the progress of Salvadoran land reform and begin negotiations that would bring members of the F.M.L.N. insurgency within the legitimate political process. Duarte has also vowed to rid El Salvador of human rights violations, which are among the worst in the hemisphere. He proposes to eliminate the country's 2,500-member Treasury Police, the ill-trained and thuggish force that is believed to serve as a major reservoir of talent for the murderous death squads...