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...Yale faculty had discussed the issue intermittently for more than a year but the decision did not cause much of a stir among students on campus. The rule, when instituted, will only affect about 150 members of each class because most will be able to bypass the requirement with standardized language tests. Yale officials said...
...election campaign has caused barely a stir in Osicala. When the voting is over, the guerrillas and the armed forces will remain, and the fighting will go on, and so will the problem of staying alive. Says one of the better-educated people in the village: "You can't be friendly with the armed forces because someone will see you. If you get stopped by the boys and someone sees you talking, they'll pass that along too. The only reason that this is an army town is that they are here. If the boys show up tomorrow...
...troubled period for movies, when attendance is slipping and not even the presence of Burt Reynolds or Clint Eastwood can guarantee box office gold, Richard Pryor is the one actor whose name spells HIT. Stir Crazy, the comedy in which he co-starred with Gene Wilder as a bumbling convict, was the No. 3 moneymaking movie of 1981 and, except for National Lampoon 's Animal House, the most successful comedy in industry history. Pryor's other 1981 film, the sugar-and-spice Bustin' Loose, was also a moneymaker, establishing him as the only star to have...
First color photos of a torrid surface stir envy in Houston
...does not budge an inch just yet. After last week's meeting with G.O.P. congressional leaders, one White House aide described the visitors' views on the chances of the President's budget being passed as "twofold: slim and none." In his continuing campaign to stir up proposals to pare the President's whopping deficits, Republican Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker himself suggested a temporary surtax of 5% to 10% on individual income taxes in 1982. The plan would net an estimated $37 billion and pay for the Administration's defense buildup, but would effectively cancel...