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...contrary, the world loves a big spender. We cannot help ourselves. We may be stripped of all our possessions, out in the cold, down to our last charge plate (not one from Saks), and standing last in a breadline that accepts only cash. But let a Silver Shadow come humming along, and our hollow faces will suddenly be laved in an involuntary beatific glow, like the Ancient Mariner just before the bird dropped...
...momentum is so important to this team. The squad showed it with a come-from-behind spurt win at Brown, solidified the claim with three quick ones to tie Northeastern, and proved it beyond a shadow of a doubt when that 5-5 tie with the Huskies became, in the time it takes to buy a hot dog, an 11-5 disaster...
Harvard's victory did not come without costs. Along the way to receiving the go-ahead for its plans to provide energy to 13 institutions in the Medical Area, the University suffered deserved humiliation at the hands of the citizens who will have to live in the shadow of the giant plant. And Harvard's financial wizards found out what happens when you don't consult the feelings of residents-in addition to teams of outside efficiency experts-in making such decisions...
...from New York especially for the party. Ex-Secretary of State Henry Kissinger showed up, and some of his staff members from the past were on hand. The place was jammed with Republican contributors, consultants and former Administration aides, as though the Soviets had summoned a meeting of the shadow government that had been lurking in the wings the past four years...
...speeches that confounded Soviet hopes of stemming a tide of condemnation. Delegate after delegate castigated Moscow for its repressive policy on human rights and for the occupation of Afghanistan. The U.S. spokesman, former Attorney General Griffin Bell, was tough. Of Afghanistan he said: "The Soviet invasion cast a dark shadow over East-West relations which no meeting, no pronouncement-nothing, in fact, but the total withdrawal of Soviet troops-can dispel." Bell went on to denounce "brutal repression" against such Soviet dissidents as Yuri Orlov, the chairman of the Moscow Helsinki Monitoring Committee, Jewish Activist Anatoli Shcharansky and Dissident Leader...