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...feel Michael S. Dukakis deserved to be President. He did not make a case for liberalism. He did not attempt to go down in a blaze of glory, fighting the good fight. He simply tried to wish ideology away, marching along in the hope that he could almost slip into the White House through the back door. His defeat inspires anger rather than mourning...
Bill Buckner, the first baseman who let a ground ball slip through his legs in Game 6 of the 1986 World Series, is Oedipus Rex, the murderer of a city's dreams. Wade Boggs, the perpetual American League batting champion, is Prometheus Bound, scorned because he never makes The Big Hit. He gives you fire, but Bostonians expect him to produce a furnace...
Faculty members who led the cry for reform are concerned that, after a few dismal seasons, Dallas football nuts may once again slip payoffs to players. "The bottom-line question," asks law-school acting dean Paul Rogers, "is, Can we control the boosters?" Certainly everyone wants the reforms to work. The booster-club president, Bill Hill, insists that "alumni understand the situation now. We're going to be a model of integrity." Gregg adds, "A school can't live without the alumni." Old grads are after him, wanting to lend a hand. "Support us, come to our games," he shoots...
...that Hobey Baker candidate and first team All-America Rejean Boivin and flashy goaltender Wayne Cowley have left Hamilton, N.Y., the Red Raiders will try not to slip down even further in the league standings...
Intangibles: The Terriers are not used to playing on grass. If the weather is poor, the Terriers will "run and shoot" and slip and slide. Still, beating Harvard is something every team wants to do in whatever sport. Stick it to the Ivy Leaguers...