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Although my comments may seem contradictory, upon closer examination, both my statements and Kirkland's stereotype quandary can be clarified. In the same way that there is an annoying University-wide tendency to identify, unfairly, yet continually, Kirkland's residents as athletes before students, there is an exasperating Kirkland-wide (and University-wide) inclination to overlook, unjustly, though consistently, burning issues of intolerable discrimination that underlie Kirkland's single-faceted reputation...
...youngsters played a hell of a game," Harvard Coach Bill Cleary said after his team fell, 5-3, to Michigan State in the final game of a NCAA Tournament total-goals series before 2934 spectators at Bright Center. "We just couldn't seem to buy a goal...
...even those maverick producers seem ready to consider tightening their spigots. Last week in London, petroleum experts from non-OPEC countries met in an emergency session to discuss ways to mop up the glut. But OPEC is unlikely to follow suit. Saudi Arabia's Hisham Nazer and other oil ministers seem hesitant to discuss cutbacks, since some OPEC members flout existing quotas...
Welcome to the first stressful season of filing under the Tax Reform Act of 1986, a law that was widely expected to make the code not only fairer but simpler as well. Yet taxpayers now contemplating one of their least-favorite civic duties seem to be of one mind. "The new system stinks," said Angel Martinez, a retired Army jungle-warfare expert, as he emerged from an information session at an Internal Revenue Service taxpayer-assistance office in Brooklyn. "I went to college for three years, and now I can't even do my own taxes." The record keeping alone...
...seem to handle prosperity well," Michigan State Captain Tom Tilley said. "It's kind of disappointing...