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Erulkar hasn't been playing goal for all of his sixteen years of soccer experience. Until his junior year in a Philadelphia high school, in fact, he was a halfback, and only made the switch because his school's regular goalie left the team...
...promised to retain the large surplus and to reduce income taxes--at the same time. This would mean drastic budget cuts....In the nation the result would be the undermining, and possibly the scrapping, of many of the great social and economic agencies built up over the past sixteen years. This is what Mr. Dewey's efficiency would mean in Washington...
Though he rolls his eyes and clears his throat in mock despair, Waits insists that the Big Three-O is nothing to sweat over. "The big ages are sixteen, thirty-three-and-a-third, forty-five and seventy-eight," he laughs. "Turning thirty -- everybody thinks about it, I guess. But it don't bother me, I feel pretty healthy." At which point Waits lets loose a painful succession of coughs, a peal of mucus swirling in the lungs...
...Sixteen hundred and twenty-five members of the Class of '84--which boasts the lowest female/male ratio and the highest percentage of minorities of any Harvard class--will troop into Memorial Hall this morning to register for their first semester of Veritas...
...quite what they had been meant to be at the 1980 Olympic Games. The reason, of course, was the fact that more than 30 nations, including the U.S., West Germany, Japan and Canada, stayed at home to protest the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in a boycott promulgated by Washington. Sixteen other nations registered their disapproval by displaying the Olympic flag rather than their national colors during the opening ceremonies, which were presided over by Communist Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev and Lord Killanin of Ireland, who retires after the games as president of the International Olympic Committee...