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...develop uniformity this year despite promises. The ongoing confusion among students as to exactly what Harvard allows is gradually precipitating into resentment between Houses and toward particular masters. On the inconsequential subject of a couple of mugs of beer on a Saturday night, the masters should quickly establish slight house taxes and cease trying to administer the policy themselves. Further neglect could turn what should be nothing more than an altogether pleasant subject into an absurdly controversial issue...
With also perfect weather conditions on the Housatonic River and a slight last current the varsity heavies began their race clumsily, catching crabs, shaking the "net" of the boat and veering off course. But after the first 100 meters, the Black and White fought back and gained on Rugers and Yale...
...only change from the previous novel that I can detect in The Patriot Game is a slight mellowing--exemplified in the protagonist. Pete Riordan, a tough (natch) federal agent who's trying to figure out what's going on In Eddie Coyle and Rat on Fire, the good guys don't fight the bad guys as much as the stupid and evil guys fight the stupider and eviler Riordan, however, is a hero-- a Vietnam vet with a bum leg and cynical pride in truth, justice and the American way Heart-warming it certainly ain't in Higginsland, Bambi would...
...Welcome," said Commandant Azmi Zghayar. He was about 5 ft. 10 in., carried a cane and walked with a slight limp, the result of a wound suffered during a raid on Israel. He wore a khaki wool sweater and green fatigues, and a pistol was tucked into his hip pocket...
...most credible line of speculation is that Brezhnev was suffering either from exhaustion or from a slight stroke when he returned from Tashkent, and is now recuperating. Nikolai Blokhin, president of the Soviet Academy of Medical Sciences, told colleagues at a conference of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War held in Cambridge, England, that he had spoken to Brezhnev only days before and had invited him to meet with the organization's leaders later this year. Insisted Blokhin: "President Brezhnev is taking his routine winter vacation...