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Harvard obviously is an excellent university. All those who seem to be paying attention say it is one of a handful of the best. This is nothing to be swept aside, and a matter for self-congratulation...
...burst of reformist activity has also swept through the Estonian Communist Party. Last June its first secretary, Karl Vaino, was relieved of his duties and replaced by Valjas, 57, a Gorbachev ally who had been brought back from diplomatic exile as Ambassador to Nicaragua...
Madness descended. Motorcycle cops jumped curbs, machines roaring over the grass in a ballet of aimless panic. The crowd on the grassy knoll looked like it had been swept with a giant scythe. The street was empty, a stark, lifeless slab of concrete that smelled of disaster. Kennedy's motorcade had been chopped in two like a luckless centipede, the front end blown to God knew where, the rear end writhing and thrashing...
...given to Jackie were still in the car -- crushed, broken. The young man in his neat dark suit, sleeves pushed up, swabbed the seats. They glistened in their miserable wetness. Beside the car was a bucket with brownish red water. If any doubt remained about this calamity, it was swept away in one glance at that bucket. So simple, so hideous...
...Crimson placed first and second in the 1000-yd. freestyle and swept the 200-yd. freestyle, with Tri-Captain Janice Sweetser finishing first, Stefanie Wreide nabbing second and Jenny Meyer trailing in third...