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...contrast to the good manners of Cromwell, Rich and Henry VIII is the King's belligerent advisor, Cardinal Wolsey (David Condon), who takes a more direct tack in getting More to sanction the King's divorce. Condon stomps his fist on the table, puts out candles with his bare hands and barks out his lines in Sylvester Stallone fashion. Despite all of this activity, however, Condon's energies are in vain. He convinces neither More nor the audience with his overbaked histrionics. By contrast, Margaret Meserve, who plays the Spanish Catholic spy Signora Chapuys, could have borrowed...
...NOTEBOOK: Since the Ivy League began to sanction women's basketball competition in 1975, Dartmouth has captured eight Ivy titles...Harvard has won two...Princeton is second behind the Big Green with five...The Crimson is expected to return 10 letterwinners next season...
...reintroduce a bill requiring all motorcycle riders to wear helmets. Twelve years ago, 47 states had such laws (though not California). Most were passed in response to federal rules cutting U.S. highway funds to states without such provisions. But bike lobbies persuaded Congress in 1976 to erase the financial sanction, and more than half the states revoked or weakened their helmet laws. Over the next three years, motorcycle fatalities leaped more than 40%, according to federal figures...
...There are certain kinds of conduct which we want to discourage," he said. "If you legalize it and remove the moral sanction attached to it, a fair number of people will experiment...
...importance of first year grades in their hiring process. In an effort to assist the General Affairs Committee, the student government body, in their implementation of the resolution, recruiters were informed over the summer of the new student referendum. The Faculty did not and were not asked to sanction the non-disclosure of grades as an official School policy as was stated in the article...