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...R.N.C. He grills doctors for highly technical information about the nature of his disease and his treatment. At the same time, he is following editor Norman Cousins' prescription that laughter is the best medicine. Atwater has watched videotapes of the Three Stooges and W.C. Fields' film Never Give a Sucker an Even Break. Black humor also helps: he presented some friends with copies of his new album and a souvenir tuft of his hair, which has been falling out from radiation treatments...
...thing that he or she would come away from Jeschke's article with a very negative impression of Wellesley in general. This in itself is not fair. If an image is to be portrayed of us, at least let us do it ourselves, on our own terms. This article sucker-punched us. Jeschke should know that this is journalism at its worst. Margaret Lisi Wellesly College
...quadruple agent. There appeared to be good grounds for the CIA to hire him: he was a shrewd intelligence operative, and Panama is an excellent listening post for developments throughout Central America and the Caribbean. But from early on, Noriega seemed to play Uncle Sam for a prize sucker. U.S. Customs Commissioner William von Raab once remarked that "occasionally, they ((Noriega & Co.)) swing some poor slob out, in effect give him away to make us feel they're cooperating." And once in a while Noriega would assist in the seizure of large amounts of narcotics -- cynics suggest...
Players of the Week:Offense: Ciavaglia. Friday, the junior center opened the scoring with a swift shot by ace Colgate goaltender Dave Gagnon, then fooled the Red Raiders with a last-second sucker play that gave Weisbrod a goal and the Crimson a 2-0 lead...
...sucker. For the past three years, I honestly believed that Harvard would offer the one course I have always wanted to take, Gen Ed 154, "Puerto Rico in the Twentieth Century...