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...Georgia is the perennial contender, and Harvard shoots for the Ivy League crown. But the differences between the two teams and the atmosphere that surround them go farther than this. Sitting at the Georgia-Georgia Tech game last Saturday and counting down the yards Herschel Walker needed to break Tony Dorsett's freshman rushing record, these differences became clear...
Like last year's Lodger album, Bowie serves up his techno-rock blend with great coolness and calculation here. Scary Monsters' atmosphere of brooding paranoia is constructed with meticulous care, emphasizing abrasive musical textures. Clattering percussion, slithering keyboards and piercing guitar (courtesy of Robert Fripp) surround Bowie's sometimes morose, sometimes hypertense vocals. Oddities, such as a Japanese translation of "It's No Game," are included just for the sake of bizarreness...
...members of the District of Columbia bar. Two months ago, the count was up to 33,457. Naturally, the number of offices has also shot up - by 57% in the past five years. And restaurants (mainly French) and stores (mainly chic). In 1976 Bloomingdale's set out to surround the District by opening one branch in Virginia and then, six months later, by placing another in Maryland. Neiman-Marcus and I. Magnin soon followed. For those who admire such things, there could be no surer sign that Washington had arrived...
Second, would Reagan as President surround himself with a range of advisers who would temper his hawkish tendencies? The evidence is otherwise. His task forces drawing up foreign policy options include such hawkish advisers as William Van Cleave, a defense expert from the University of Southern California; Edward Luttwak, a leading theoretician of the right; and Richard Pipes, a Harvard history professor who is strongly anti-Soviet. Of late, he has been advised by more experienced and moderate voices as well, Henry Kissinger being a noteworthy example. But there is little doubt that Reagan would use U.S. military power abroad...
...would surround himself with able men and women, heed their advice -and give us a fresh start...