Word: slices
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Goals: Harvard goals. The Crimson did not place a player in the ECAC's top 25 scorers, but that didn't matter. This year, Coach Cleary has baked up one big goal cake and has given all his players a slice. When Harvard scores goals, it throws a birthday party...
...stakes are also suddenly very real. Solid black support and a potential three-way split of the white vote make it quite possible that Jackson will emerge from the Super Tuesday frenzy next week rivaling the front runner in delegate totals. Moreover, if he continues to attract a slice of white votes, he would become, at least for a while, the legitimate front runner, one whose clout could overshadow the little "yes, but" asterisk next to his name...
Russian is a language spoken with the hands, the eyebrows, an occasional shake of the head from side to side or a shrug of the shoulders. Gorbachev has mastered those gestures, and more. He may slice the air with a modified karate chop or spin his hands one over the other like a pinwheel, then extend them palms up in a gesture of vulnerability, only to clench them into fists a moment later. All the time his intense eyes lock onto a listener's. The eyes, he once told an audience in Prague, never lie. Much of his animation comes...
Dayal Kaur Khalsa introduces a more familiar animal in I Want a Dog (Potter; $10.95). An eager young girl named May has only one wish, a canine of her own. "When you're older," replies an elder, and the highly colored tale begins. May carries a slice of salami, and gets trailed by ten potential pets who just happen to follow her home. The answer is no. Desperately, she goes everywhere with a roller skate on a leash, to prove that she is capable of caring for something besides herself. Along the way, she learns a double moral: the value...
Israel strictly controls Gaza's commerce, including its primary crops of oranges, lemons and limes, to ensure that the occupied land does not compete with Israel. For security reasons, Israel has limited Gaza's second major industry, fishing, to a narrow slice of the Mediterranean. The result is a retarded economy, with little prospect for growth. Brigadier General Shai Eres, who until last month headed Gaza's civil administration, admits that the shackled economy severely limits the region's prospects. Says Eres: "Of course, there is no independence possible for this area...