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...Corrigan recalls "people seriously wondering if we would ever lose again." But against Michigan the following week the contrasts between high school and college football began to show, and soon Faust was found wanting even in the Pat O'Brien department. Once, in a burst of madness, an alumnus sprang onto the field at half time. The Irish were leading Michigan State by the unsatisfactory score of 11-0. "You're going to have to show more imagination than running off tackle," he collared and admonished Faust, who gathered him around the waist and said, "Come with...
...managers limited freedom from the tyrannies of rigid central planning. Among other things, they could make more decisions about production quotas without the approval of state authorities. Small-scale entrepreneurs were al lowed to open everything from private bakeries to boutiques and restaurants. In the countryside, profit-oriented cooperatives sprang up alongside Soviet-style collective farms. Vendors were allowed to set the prices of vegetables, clothing and many consumer goods freely...
...discovered to have been indirectly underwritten by a company that also financed a $440,000 lobbying campaign in support of the Russian government. House ethics rules bar congressmen from receiving travel reimbursement from lobbyists. Similarly shady trips to South Korea and England have attracted further attention. In addition, reports sprang up earlier this month that DeLay’s wife and daughter received more than $500,000 from the congressman’s political action committee, an unusually large amount for the campaign work they contributed. To top it off, DeLay’s association with the Republican push...
Michael A. Schachter ’05, a representative on the Committee on Concentrations, said that his idea for the book sprang from a feeling that “the student side of the Curricular Review sort of lacked a soul...
...influence of the networkers already extends to the outside world--as Diane Worthington, on-line manager of the popular PARTI section of the Source, can testify. When Worthington was charged with involvement in a San Francisco LSD operation, arrested and held without bail, her electronic admirers sprang to her defense. Planning their strategy in nationwide PARTI conferences, they sent telegrams to the judge, and are now raising money for Worthington's legal defense. In Colorado Springs, David Hughes, alerting fellow networkers to a proposed zoning-code change that would have made it more difficult for them to work at home...