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...rather play for our crowd than out there. It's not cut--throat. In the Big Ten the rans root, here they watch. The student bodies and alumni are so different, more like a family That's what makes it the Ivy League. When I graduate and go to a Harvard game I'll probably act the same...
Children who fall into the hands of the authorities are not necessarily any better off than the wandering urchins. One 13-year-old boy who spent six months in an Espirito Santo detention center told reporters: "They beat me on the back and the throat with boards and pieces of rubber with nails in it. Sometimes at night, four or five guards would come and rape us. They raped the little girls too. We screamed but it did no good." Complaints to child welfare officials went unheeded. The director of the children's home was accused of beating...
...should be privileged. Arguing that the book is simply a red herring, Eugene Scheiman, one of his lawyers, insisted: "Authors have First Amendment rights. Woodward and Bernstein were not required to turn over their manuscripts. No one would argue that they would have to reveal the identity of Deep Throat...
Kimball, a onetime realty and insurance man, had undergone throat cancer and heart surgery before he took over in 1974, but he has proved to be a vigorous, globe-trotting activist. He is at his desk daily by 7 a.m., stays there till 5:30 p.m. without a lunch break, then works until 10 at the home he shares with wife Camilla. In typical Mormon fashion he attributes his vitality to the fact that "all my life, from the time I was a little boy on the farm, I have done hard work." Like other practicing Mormons, he shuns alcohol...
...possible to defend dress codes while still finding it ridiculous that this oddly shaped rag, knotted at the throat, has come to define respectable dress in a man. The necktie did not arrive with any compelling mandate from nature. Its origins were whimsical enough. After the Croatians defeated the Turks in a battle during the 17th century, the victorious regiment was given a welcome in Paris; admiring Frenchmen copied the soldiers' flowing scarves-cravates. Over the centuries, the tie has gone through thousands of fitful and pointless variations: stocks, string ties and once during the 19th century, a crescent...