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Truth be told, the Wilton, Conn., native is one of the most exciting and strongest performers ever to grace a Harvard track. He is currently among the top middle-distance runners in the nation and has an outside chance at the 1984 Olympics...
...American movement to weaken apartheid in South Africa by reducing U.S. involvement there is now at one of its strongest positions ever. For the first time, the traditionally divided group has found organizational unity and philosophical focus in a single goal forcing divestiture of all public and institutionally held funds from corporations that do business in South Africa...
...strongest influences in their decision, Aloian said earlier in the spring, was a New York Times interview with Walesa in which he expressed his abiding desire to visit the United States. He hoped to make such a trip "perhaps in May, June or July," to see relatives in the country, he told the Times. America, he said, was his "second homeland...
...friends or family to provide what researchers call "social support," and such personality factors as flexibility and hopefulness. At Johns Hopkins, Dr. Caroline Bedell Thomas has correlated psychological factors with the long-term health records of 1,337 medical students who graduated between 1948 and 1964. One of the strongest prognosticators of cancer, mental illness and suicide, she found, was "lack of closeness to parents" and a negative attitude toward one's family. A 1978 study of 7,000 people in Alameda County, Calif., confirmed the importance of social support. Epidemiologist Leonard Syme of Berkeley, Calif., who conducted...
...after they occurred to him in order to perfect them. Brownlow and Gill have, for instance, found home movies taken at a Douglas Fairbanks party that show Chaplin dancing with a globe. Something like a decade later, that little improvisation becomes the basis for The Great Dictator's strongest image, that of a power-mad tyrant's lustful pas de deux with the symbol of the world he intends to conquer. From The Professor he salvaged, three decades later, the flea circus routine, now more delicately rendered, that is one of Limelight's comic high spots...