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...idea of the student-athlete should have its limits, the veteran sportscaster said. "It would be a shame to expect a Billy Simms to be like a Harvard student." Musberger explained, saying that football players have something to offer the country's culture and should be given the training provided by the college game without being expected to become scholars...
...ended last year in permission to build the monument, the proposed design came under fire. When the structure envisioned by first-year Graduate School of Design student Maya Y. Lin was finally completed, some argued that the understand black marble was not "heroic" enough and perpetuated the post-war shame of the veterans, so designers agreed to add the traditional large bronze figure of three soldiers and a flag. Then another group raised objections to the victory-V shape of the monument, which to some underlined the ambiguity...
Abram J. Chayes '43, Frankfurter Professor of Law--who clerked for Frankfurter in 1951--said he was motivated to organize the event by the fact that Frankfurter" was simply the increasingly dominant presence at the Law School for over 20 years--to have him sort of disappear was a shame...
...correlation can be made between Rauda Marcia's decision and Reagan's new policy, it's a shame the Administration didn't crack down on El Salvador earlier. Washington is in a position to dictate positive, pragmatic changes to the Salvadorans without resorting to military aid. If those in power don't hesitate to use that influence, more chaos in El Salvador--and more deaths--can still be avoided...
...shame that Creepshow fails so miserably, even as crude entertainment, because the initial premise is a good one. In the horror genre, King and Romero represent the opposite poles of safe commercialism and bizarre individuality, but here they both go back to their common root--the pulp comic book. The short vignette, already used to great effect in such classics as Tales from the Crypt and the marvelous Dead of Night, is the perfect medium to evoke the atmosphere of horror comics--those brief blurry flashes of primary-colored terror framed by win-great-prizes-selling-junk-door-to-door...