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...everyone's amazement, it is pitching which has carried St. Louis. With no offensive support to speak of, the pitching staff supported the Cards for a two-month spell this summer, allowing them to stay in first while the team collectively struggled...
When the budget for paying college tuition is tight--as both national and personal budgets this year are notorious for being--even a small extra expense can spell disaster. And the matter seemed anything but small this summer when Scott Weiner '84, a financial aid recipient, found that Harvard expected him to pay $242 more every month than he paid last year. In fact, for a while he thought the barrier would prove insurmountable. "I don't know what will happen," he says now, though he is returning to school to try. "I don't think there...
...accounts, his was a masterful performance. Like his predecessors d'Estaing, Pompidou and deGaulle, Mitterrand can be a captivating, often literary speaker. As he began to spell out the French role in the Lebanese crisis, the President was clearly at his best...
...economic modernization had an ominous sound, since Hu and Deng are believed to be preparing a broad shake-up of the party leadership throughout China in the name of modernization. As one party stalwart explained, "About 10% of the membership is no longer up to the grade." That could spell trouble for some 3.9 million party functionaries and officials who, in Deng's view, have failed to support his ambitious dream of a stable and modern China...
Nathaniel Gove, 19, of Kingston, Mass., was diagnosed as dyslectic in the second grade. He was pushed through a special public school program with a dozen other children who had various physical and emotional handicaps. Unable to spell, for example, he was told to "just skip it." In junior high school, he was assigned to a large special-education class that satisfied the law but virtually ignored Nat's problems. He and his parents were unaware of how little he was learning until a college counselor told his father: "Your son is hopeless." Furious at the summary judgment...