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...third Dartmouth goal came at 14:16, when Lewis looped around behind the net, came up on the right and shuck the puck past Kimmel...
AGAINST the background of this deadlock appears Duarte's big gamble this week, to shuck his past policy and meet with his leftist oppostion. Though, by all accounts, the talks were (in relative terms, at least) a success, Duarte is still in between a rock and a hard place. He is firmly against the concept of power-sharing advanced by the guerrillas; he knows too well the scant success brooked by moderates in sharing rule with Marxist guerillas. But at the same time the guerillas are understandably wary about answering Duarte's call to join elections; they know too well...
...hope it doesn't have to come to that. If Harvard is dead-set on proving that it can shuck its responsibility for the forest, it should produce the documents which show that retaining the $2.5 million endowment is in keeping with the letter--and the spirit--of the original agreement. But right now, most signs seem to indicate that the University has an obligation to turn over the endowment Stillman hoped would preserve his gift...
After all these years, he may be getting some satisfaction. The new sparkle in Rolling Stone Mick Jagger's eye comes from Elizabeth Scarlett, 4 months, whose mother is Model Jerry Hall, 28. Though the parents have not married, they did not want to shuck all tradition, and gathered grandparents for a christening two weeks ago in London. "I'm loving every minute of being Dad again," says Jagger, 40, who has two other daughters: Jade, 13 (by ex-wife Bianca), and Karis, 13 (by American Singer Marsha Hunt). The baby, he adds, has "Jerry's sweet...
...time of more violent change for the entire country. Tomás and Tereza emigrate to Zurich, where he has been promised a job in a prominent hospital. Sabina goes to Geneva and falls into a love affair with Franz, an unhappily married professor. It is her fate to shuck off the past: parents, the precepts of her Communist Youth League childhood and, in turn, all of her lovers: "What fell to her lot was not the burden but the unbearable lightness of being." The weight of existence descends on Tomás and Tereza. Homesick and upset...