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...captives through roundabout and nefarious means. Swift learned that the Shah had left the United States when she found a letter addressed to one of the hostages thrown carelessly in a wastepaper basket. Swift read the letter and quickly replaced it in case it was put there as a trap. Similarly, Swift learned that the Shah had died from the index page of Time magazine. As she told the Quarterly, "One of the student honchos came in and said, as part of the usual harangue, that as soon as the Shah was returned, we could go home. I said...
Another often-mentioned tendency related to cyclical College discussions is losing not only a sense of history but also of context. Sometimes the trap of viewing "Harvard as the center of the universe" waxes tongue-in-cheek, like the recent save-the-ivy debate when one freshman Student Assembly delegate boldly dubbed it "one of the graver issues of our time." But in the discussions preceding the vote approving Harvard's incoming student government, some students writing and reading the constitution viewed it as a bold and pace-setting document. Actually, a survey of Ivy League student governments and some...
...successfully exploits reversed sex roles for a laugh, wins second prize in a beauty contest and ten dollars. Second move: Making Love presents homosexuals in every day situations, but remains cliche ridden; rests at Free Parking with no penalty, thanks to its honest, if flawed effort. Third move: Death-trap takes the luxury of using homosexuality as a heavy-handed plot manipulation, $75 dollar luxury tax levied. Final move: Partners opens. Send the producers to jail. Directly, And make them give me back my four dollars...
Senior Larry Stein described his performance as "pretty poor," especially under the duress of playing with two lefthanded opponents. His troubles began on the first hole, he said, and with "The Himalayas" and "The Elephant Trap" still to go, there was not much hope for improvement...
...candidate carefully avoids a trap many businessmen fall into when seeking a transfer into government because he asserts that the state must be charted on a business course. "Government is run for people not profits," he declares, making the rather uncontroversial assertion that a good governor needs "compassion with competence." But he sharply challenges the widespread assessment of the definitions. The compassion, he rightly points out, is innate. An understanding, a feel for human needs is not necessarily correlated with years in office. More importantly, he argues, neither is competence...