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Even casual baseball fans know the drears of the Boston Red Sox, those goats of fate, a team usually long on talent but short on luck and even minimal strategy from the dugout. The New York Yankees are another legend: power at bat, awesome pitching, managerial smarts to spare...
...despite the complaints, many professors say that department heads have become more sympathetic to the needs of junior members. In particular, they say, more and more senior faculty are being appointed head tutors in an effort to spare junior professors from the time-consuming bureaucratic responsibility...
...Spare us the Garlanding. The rage in this case properly belongs to the victim, to her family...
...have had to examine our self-reliance. When the U.S. was a fully committed member of ANZUS, we had two days' ammunition and no spare parts. Well, we have had to change that, and it has cost us. We have had to spend money for equipment that otherwise would have been provided by the U.S. on the former paternalistic basis. Our message is that our position on the nuclear question is resolved, and it will continue. We are disposed to be cooperative with great powers and small powers, but we will not do so at the cost of our nuclear...
...income families: 73% of the women complain of having too little leisure, as do 51% of the men. Such figures produce no end of questions for sociologists, and everyone else, to stew over. Why do we work so hard? Why do we have so little time to spare? What does this do to us and our children? And what would we give up in order to live a little more peaceably...