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After Dermody saved another key penalty shot, Karen Everling-- playing at defense for the injured Maggie Vaughan-- worked a textbook give-and-go with Lila Rifaat, and then dodged two defenders for a coast-to-coast goal...
...with Eisner at the helm, Disney has not lost its obsessive attention to detail. Eisner aims to impress Parisians with a fluent opening-day speech at Euro Disneyland four years from now, so he has dusted off a college French textbook and hired a French-speaking limousine driver through a want ad. Walking through Disneyland one Sunday afternoon, he peered at the plastic | leaves on the Swiss Family Robinson tree house, noting that they periodically wear out and need to be replaced leaf by leaf at a cost of $500,000. As his family strolled the park...
Said Cristina R. Diaz '91, an Ec 10 student, "I would complain about the unusefulness of the green textbook." She also said, "They're very conservative... They should have more radical speakers come and talk...
...down that textbook and pick up a piece of paper and a pencil. Try to think of Shoeless Joe, not Shakespeare. Of the Say Hey Kid, not Ho Chi Minh. Of curveballs, not bell curves...
Administration officials now fear that what they expected to be a textbook study in swiftly dislodging a tyrant will turn into a bloody, drawn-out struggle. "The assumption was that despite all his defects, he cared about the welfare of Panama," says a State Department official. "Well, Noriega cares exclusively about Noriega, and he will use every means at his disposal to hold...