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DIED. JACK CLAYTON, 73, film director; from heart and liver trouble; in Slough, England. Clayton's work ranged from the unblinking social realism of Room at the Top (1959), for which he received an Oscar nomination, to the supernatural period gloom of The Innocents...
...more effective when used in conjunction with the drug misoprostol, which helps the uterine lining slough off by inducing muscle contractions...
...best way to beat the mood, and the rain, is by getting out of the muddy slough of despond and taking decisive action. Quadlings would be well-advised to invest in hip boots and waders. First-years would be equally well-advised to make the pilgrimage to 29 Garden Street so that they can be properly grateful they don't live there. And if the roaches in Dunster House start lining up two by two, leave town...
...know about small American cars. Even as the U.S. auto industry pulled itself out of its '80s slough with its nifty minivans and reborn muscle cars, Detroit's compacts continued to deserve their reputation as cheap, homely, unreliable and, well, maybe a cut above Yugos and Trabants and the like, but not by much. Even their makers now admit that American compacts have been, for the most part, junk. Listen to Ford's Jerry Auth, a marketing executive: "Small cars built by Ford, GM and Chrysler were considered inferior -- and they were." Says Chrysler's Walter Battle, a planning manager...
This is no "slough-your-way-through Harvard"concentration, Johnson says...