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...much as anything is how one-sided the so-called rivalry really is. Pierson's volume on merely 50 years of Yale history lists in its index almost 70 references to Harvard, and more than 40 under the category Yale-Harvard comparisons. Morison's 300-year overview makes a scant 15 mentions of Yale. It is quite easy, in discussing Harvard, to ignore Yale...
...Reagan party promptly resumed its weekend stay in the Eisenhower Cabin, only to have it irrevocably cut short scant hours later by the news from Beirut...
...scant ten months after taking office as the nation's highest-ranking Hispanic and its only Hispanic Governor, Anaya, 42, has established himself as a colorful and controversial activist with national ambitions. In New Mexico, a state with a weak Governor system, he has already earned a reputation as an ironfisted leader. Nationally he has gained visibility as chairman of Hispanic Force '84, an effort by elected and appointed Hispanic officials to mobilize the nation's approximately 6 million voting-age Hispanics into an influential force in the Democrats' 1984 presidential campaign. Says Anaya: "My political...
...ahead and then sat back, and waited and waited, and got beat," Morgan said. "That's the way you get beat. The Orioles didn't get here by quitting, and we didn't either." Baltimore won the fifth game too, 5-4, again with scant help from its finest player, Eddie Murray. He and Mike Schmidt wore the same frown. (All statistics will be rendered meaningless at the outset of World War III.) The Orioles had unloaded their supply of pinch hitters all at once. (If everybody feels they're somebody, you end up with...
While competition was scant in some uncontested districts, other Houses had lively campaigns, with posters and slogans ranging from the vehement to the light-hearted...