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...left with no answer for it all. Some will only shrug their shoulders and tip their snifters. But others will continue to ponder the mystery of the Yale game, remembering the words of the late Professor George Lyman Kitteridge '82, "There must be something to this Yale game, they do it every year...
...celebrate about finally Making It Out of Massachusetts, and tip your cap to Eddie King, but you should also keep a close watch for Connecticut state troopers, who are likely to give you about as nice a reception as the state of California gave the medfly. If you're really unfortunate, and the Conn bears catch you doing more than 65 mph, your best bet is to be super polite. Otherwise, they're capable of taking away your license, and depending on the circumstances--such as the odor of your breath--throwing you into the pokey...
...Japan's success is rooted not in the ways of the warrior but in planning by government and industry, patient investing and diligence on the part of management and labor. In the U.S., ideological dogmatism undercuts the first, impetuousness the second and sloth the third. Take a tip from 20th century Japanese businessmen, not from 17th century warriors...
After a telephone tip one day last week, police rushed to busy Oxford Street, the heart of London's main shopping district, where bombs were said to have been planted. Police Explosives Expert Kenneth Howorth, 49, a former army warrant officer who had tackled I.R.A. bombs in Northern Ireland, went into a Wimpy hamburger shop to defuse one of the bombs. It blew up in his face, killing him instantly. Another bomb, hidden in a rest room in a nearby department store, was successfully removed by an explosives expert, who had just heard the blast that he knew...
...revenge after the humiliating defeat he suffered last summer when the Reagan machine rolled over the Democratic tax-cut program and passed its own. Rostenkowski has already warned the Administration that his committee will not take up new "consumer taxes" this session. Speaker of the House Thomas P. ("Tip") O'Neill Jr. of Massachusetts last week endorsed the tough stand, saying that Democrats would not help the Administration out of its budget bind until the President admitted that his program was a failure...