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...could go either way. I would give a slight edge to Princeton. Harvard lost five of its top six players. Home-court advantage will also play a big part in the match." Princeton, 5-4. --Fesail Naqvi, The Daily Princetonian...
Again, a Kennedy lay murdered and the nation's future was immutably changed. Robert Francis Kennedy, 42, slight, tousle-haired, fatalistic, intense, was a messiah to some, an opportunist to others. He announced his candidacy for the White House four days after another improbable visionary, Senator Eugene McCarthy of Minnesota, had almost beaten Lyndon Johnson in New Hampshire's Democratic primary. McCarthy's antipolitical antiwar campaign had galvanized American youth. Beards shaved and locks shorn, they rushed by the thousands to become "Clean for Gene" workers in his crusade. The New York Senator's decision to enter the race split...
...Every slight is said to draw its source form the same collective unconsicous of racism and sexism. The implications of the challenge are severe...
...slight, unprepossessing figure who has passed most of his life puttering contentedly beyond the reach of history's spotlight. His time has < been spent writing monographs on the goby (a spiny-finned fish of the Gobiidae family), playing the cello and raising his two sons and one daughter. His official duties have kept him fitfully in the public eye but not in the popular imagination. As Crown Prince Akihito ascends Japan's Chrysanthemum Throne, he remains a mystery to his countrymen and a cipher to the world...
...World War II era. He occupied the Chrysanthemum Throne longer than any of his recorded predecessors. During his 62 years as Emperor, ( Hirohito presided over a nation that soared to heights of military arrogance, plummeted catastrophically and rose again to become a formidable industrial power. Through it all, the slight, stooped Hirohito retained an unassuming tranquillity. As Japan's national television network flashed the words TENNO- HEIKA HOGYO (the Emperor passes away) last Saturday, some of the country's 122 million citizens wept, some prayed, some affected disinterest. All realized that an era of great change for their country...