Word: scene
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After becoming the first Harvard swimmer to win an NCAA swimming title since 1961 (Berkoff won the 100-yd. backstroke in 1987), after entering the international scene in 1988, after breaking the world record in the 100-meter backstroke, after winning a gold medal in Seoul, after setting an American record two weeks ago, Berkoff is almost there...
...planned to arrive on the scene at 8:30 a.m., figuring that I would be the first person there. Harvard logic told me that since the tickets were to go on sale at 9, everyone would arrive at one minute before the hour like they did to all their classes. I certainly underestimated the motivation of my fellow undergraduates...
...American Scene...
...hectic scene in southern Texas reflects the confusion of a U.S. immigration policy that is on the verge of being swamped by a virtual tidal wave of new arrivals. "We stand on the precipice of an enormous immigration crisis," says Wyoming Republican Senator Alan Simpson, who, with Democratic Congressman Romano Mazzoli of Kentucky, wrote the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act. It is a crisis with which the U.S., despite its cherished history as a nation of immigrants, is not prepared to cope. "We have no population policy," complains a State Department official. "No total concept on which to build...
...dinner in their North Belfast home, when three men slipped in through the unlocked front door. One of the intruders, wielding an automatic, opened fire on Finucane, instantly killing the 38-year-old Catholic lawyer. His wife, who was wounded in the ankle, and three children watched the bloody scene in horror as the gang escaped in a commandeered taxi...