Word: things
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...games--I don't care," Cleary said. "I enjoy working with these kids. I'm just glad they got a chance to win this thing...
BOSTON--A funny thing happened along the road to Bill Cleary's 300th career victory. Harvard won the Beanpot...
Bush: How are ya' boys? Looks like I made a big hit with that speech I gave a couple weeks ago on the ethics thing. I sure am proud that we can finally get rid of that sleazy aura that Ronnie's Californians brought to Washington. My soul hasn't felt so pure since the good old days at Yale when me and the boys were hanging out at Skull and Bones...
...this black comedy to music, Verdi and his librettist, Arrigo Boito, degrade the hero still further. "Lord, make him impotent," the women chorus as everyone flails and pummels the fallen hero. And yet after his punishment on the stage of the Brooklyn Academy of Music last week, a wonderful thing happened. Falstaff mysteriously rose above his tormentors and soared into space, a paunchy carouser suddenly transformed into a kind of pagan god of pleasure...
...ophthalmologists -- medical doctors who specialize in eye care -- remain wary of vision therapy. "There's a conceptual fogginess to the whole thing," declares ophthalmologist George Beauchamp of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, "and the treatments are fuzzy and ill-defined." Although optometrists point to hundreds of research reports that they say validate the training, most ophthalmologists dismiss the studies as anecdotal. "Bring me one study controlled for bias on the part of the practitioner and the person," says Dr. Paul Vinger of Harvard University, a vision consultant to the U.S. Olympic Committee. "Prove it, then promote...