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Phillips Andover Academy and Groton both qualified for the quarter-finals of the Prince Elizabeth Cup for schoolboy eights. Groton won its second-round heat from Eton by three lengths, while Andover easily subdued Cheltenham College...
...most famous poems. One such poem with a bawdy original is Comin' Thro' the Rye, in which a much earthier verb appears in the line: "Gin a body kiss a body/ Need a body cry." Another ballad, John Anderson, My Jo, is known to every schoolboy as a touching tribute to the strength of marital affection in old age: its source, doubtless known to every schoolboy in all Scotland, turns out to be a ballad where the old wife mocks the decline of her old husband's sexual powers...
...unrest spread, a 15-year-old schoolboy in a classroom in Hama (pop. 110,000) erased the Baathist slogan, "One Single Arab Nation with an Immortal Mission," and wrote instead, "The Atheist Baath Is Against God!" The boy was sentenced to a year's hard labor, and his classmates went on strike. The sheiks and mullahs of Hama's 65 mosques denounced Baathist oppression, and surging Moslem mobs filled the streets. The police opened fire and the battle of Hama began...
...fashioned enough to be eccentric. Almost any Sunday, Cheever's small figure may be seen tramping on the back roads around Croton Dam trailed by his two Labradors. His lined, nut-brown face, like that of so many Americans of the middle class, is that of an aging schoolboy, and his clothes that schoolboy uniform-tweed jacket, khaki drill pants and scuffed loafers...
...scholars-was wrong. It is a "myth," says the Cornell University historian, that Hamilton was a "fabulous reactionary" with views alien to the U.S. environment. Indeed, his "works and words have been more consequential than those of any other American in shaping the Constitution under which we live." Every schoolboy knows that Hamilton was the archfoe of the democratic Jefferson and the archfriend of aristocracy. But few Americans today realize that it was Hamilton who first elaborated the doctrine of judicial review, pointing up the power of the courts to nullify all laws that, in his words, were "contrary...