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...alarming corollary of anti-U.S. feeling is a possible swing by Argentina to the Soviet bloc for future aid, as absurd as that seems for a staunchly anti-Communist regime. After a 30-minute meeting with President Leopoldo Fortunate Galtieri last week, Soviet Ambassador Sergei Striganov expressed Moscow's "sympathy with the Argentine people's hard fight against British imperialism." Galtieri later said that he would accept "any hand that is offered" to aid his country. It was unclear just what the Soviets, who bought 75% of Argentina's grain exports last year, were prepared...
...guess it's a swing, but it's hardly a revolution." Eisenberg says. The stiffened requirements, he adds "puts us in step with 98 percent of the country's medical schools...
When Chip Robie arrived at Harvard from Choate, he brought a huge squash swing and very brisk drives. But he had little conception of what he was doing on the squash court except hitting hard...
...Dave [Harvard squash Coach Dave Fish] looked at me," Robie remembers, "changed my swing, and taught me what seemed like a million and two things about squash. After throwing the kitchen sink at me, he let me digest it, and four years later, I started playing great squash...
Although he favors "anything that works towards students assuming responsibility for their own education." Tosteson adds that the changes reflect merely a "swing towards a clearer delineation of expectations...