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Last Monday Boston College's daily student newspaper, The Heights, filed suit in Middlesex County Superior Court against the Boston College campus police--in an attempt to gain access to daily police logs and arrest reports...
UConn has parlayed its superior skills and strong goaltending into a 9-1-1 season ledger, with the sole loss coming at the hands of top-ranked North Carolina two weeks ago. The talented set of Buckley twins, leading scorer Moira (13 goals and five assists as back striker) and center fullback Tara, lead Coach Len Tsantiris...
Mubarak got the job and won plaudits in 1973 for his handling of the air battle against Israel's superior, U.S.-equipped air force. Two years later Sadat named Mubarak, a man from the President's home province of Menoufia, to the vice-presidency, a decision that surprised virtually everyone, including the appointee...
...past few decades of American architectural taste with a short book, published this month, titled From Bauhaus to Our House (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 143 pages, $10.95). Wolfe has talent as a stirrer, but his text bears out John Stuart Mill's remark that "the second-rate superior minds of a cultivated age .. . are usually in exaggerated opposition against its spirit...
...changes in mental capacity. Sperry's test procedures proved that each cerebral hemisphere in such patients had its own separate world of consciousness, perceptual experience, emotions, thoughts and memory. In subsequent research, the right hemisphere, far from being inferior to the left, as was once thought, proved clearly superior in some respects, including the capacity for intuitive thinking, interpreting auditory impressions and comprehending spatial relationships. Said the Nobel Committee of Sperry's achievements: "He has provided us with an insight into the inner world of the brain which hitherto had been almost completely hidden from...