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Other outstanding efforts sparked the Crimson demolition as the team reeled off seven consecutive wins after a pair of early losses. Andy McNerney turned in his usual outstanding performance in the 142 class, taking out his exam-time frustrations on Springfield's captain, Greg Georges, 15-4. With his unorthodox but effective style, McNerney managed to turn over his opponent repeatedly for backpoints, keeping his season-long undefeated streak alive...
...first, these unorthodox interpretations of revenge seem less personal than traditional-an attitude inherited from an agrarian people accustomed to gentleness and passivity. To be sure, there was a long time, between the 9th and 15th centuries, when Khmer culture sustained a golden age-the period of Angkor Wat with its five peaked towers and massive stone gods. But fundamentally, Cambodia has remained a village nation, and the values of Pol Pot, not to mention his horrors, must have seemed as shocking as they were terrifying. The children in Khao I Dang have simple values. They have been taught...
...weeks later, Ronald Reagan and the supporters of the unorthodox theory of supply-side economics took office. The new President vowed to stimulate business by slashing taxes, even though some critics said that such a move at a time of high inflation would cause prices to spiral still faster. Reagan responded that he would curb inflation by cutting the U.S. budget, and urged the Federal Reserve Board to maintain tight control of the money supply. Moreover, the President asserted that when investors saw prices leveling off, they would lower the return they demanded for their money, and thus interest rates...
DIED. Jacques Lacan, 80, controversial French psychoanalyst who in 1964 founded the Freudian School of Paris after being expelled from the International Psychoanalytical Association for unorthodox practices (his sessions with patients were sometimes as brief as five or even three minutes); of an abdominal tumor; in Paris. Lacan, who last year dissolved the Freudian School on the ground that it had fallen into "deviations and compromises," maintained that adult psychic disorders often stemmed from the learning of language-and the repression of nonverbal ideas and urges-during childhood...
...after shaking off its initial rustiness, partly the result of playing against MIT's unorthodox (read: disorganized) style of play. Harvard jumped out to a lead in the second half and never looked back...