Word: trained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Contests and recognition, however, are of negligible importance to the Winthrop House resident. Meadow has participated in football, wrestling and track while at Harvard. He used to train for these sports by weightlifting, until last year when he decided to shift his focus specifically to bodybuilding...
...title, Station To Station, iu apt, for there is something train-like in the crushing momentum of the disco rhythm tracks and about the sleek streamlined impersonality of the band. The cuts are longer (three fill each side), allowing songs to start out with splintering metallic rumbles that build up steam and reach a feverish, hand-clapping pitch by the ends. None of which would mean anything without the hooks, which are especially abundant and prehensile. In fact, it seems Bowie has subordinated everything to them. The musicians play anonymously (Earl Slick's keening feedback on the beginning of "Station...
...Company Town" sounds a little like a protest song as it maps out the train tracks and oil tanks on the outskirts of town and gets you watching the workers moving in a "dark stream" to the exhalation of a whistle...
...expatriates should not be expected to return to, nor should American universities train physicians for a government that, since its inception in 1953 in the wake of a CIA-sponsored coup, has been run as a dictatorship. For the Med School to do so would mean ignoring Iran's 70,000 member secret police force, which keeps tight control on political action and education, spreading its web tight enough to include at least one agent in every university classroom. It would mean denying the 25,000 political prisoners now in Iran. It would mean justifying the use of torture...
Cubans are also active in a number of Arab states. They train Polisario guerrillas from Western Sahara in Algeria. In South Yemen, there are more than 3,000 advisers and special forces, including MIG-flying pilots. By far the largest detachment is in Syria: 3,500 to 4,000 men, including an entire armored brigade (with 94 Russian T-62 tanks), two commando battalions, perhaps 30 or more MIG pilots...