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...other interesting twist to the afternoon's pre-game ceremonies was the absence of two key players from the Crimson's roster...
...surprise arrival was none other than the recently disgraced Hu Yaobang, 71, who was purged in January as Communist Party chief and heir apparent to Chinese Leader Deng Xiaoping. Hu's unexpected reappearance at the annual National People's Congress, China's largest policymaking body, marked the latest twist in the protracted power struggle that has shaken the country in recent months and threatened Deng's sweeping economic reforms. Said one of the nearly 3,000 congress delegates of Hu's return: "Perhaps it could be a good thing...
Enter Norman Roy Grutman, a New York City lawyer who, incredibly, had represented Penthouse magazine against Falwell when the evangelist sued to prevent distribution of an issue containing an interview with him. In an additional twist, Grutman had also once been Falwell's lawyer in a libel case against Hustler. Now working for Bakker, Grutman declared that an unnamed evangelist had mounted an unfriendly "takeover" bid for PTL and threatened that if this preacher did not back off, "we're going to be compelled to show that there is smellier laundry in his hamper than the laundry he thought...
...interesting twist in ideologies took place Tuesday night. The Conservative Club brought South African Vice Consul Duke Kent-Brown to Harvard to voice an alternative view that might otherwise not have been heard on campus. But Kent-Brown's speech was disrupted by campus protesters on a cue from a members of the Southern African Solidarity Committee who stood up in the middle of Kent-Brown's speech and announced that he was collecting money for the ANC. As soon as this announcement was made, protesters swarmed in from all sides and attempted not only to disrupt Kent-Brown...
...balls, corking bats -- brings only winks, while the real appreciation is reserved for breaches in the spirit of sportsmanship and fair play. Billy Martin waited for George Brett to hit a homer before objecting to the pine tar on his bat. The old Brooklyn pitcher Clyde King used to twist his cap slightly askew in hopes that the base runner on first would think he was glancing over. King got the idea from wearing two left sneakers in basketball games so that the defender could never tell which way Clyde was going by looking at his feet. Most sports...