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Fuentes has not changed, however, is in his use of surrealism to express confusion and to perplex the reader. Although this technique is annoying at times, it does not distract from The Hydra Head's quick pace. If the bizarre seems pointless, sometimes, it does not inhibit one's desire to know where it all leads. Ultimately, the novel is frustrating: more and more it tells the reader less and less. Unlike traditional thrillers, the final scene leaves one with new questions rather than resolved mysteries...

Author: By Judith E. Matloff, | Title: The Day of the Hydra | 4/19/1979 | See Source »

Califano told the eastern branch of the Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) that if big revenue sports do not receive an exemption, the House Appropriations Committee might act to prohibit use of HEW funds for enforcement of Title IX, Andronike Janus, assistant director of athletics, said last night...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Title IX Embroiled in Controversy | 4/19/1979 | See Source »

...engages in three types of activity on campus in the U.S.--the recruitment of Americans, recruitment of foreign students (both carried out with the cooperation of various academics) and the use of scholars to analyze, collect or even publish information for the agency. A fourth activity, covert support of "moderate" students' groups, gradually wound down after revelations in 1967 showed covert funding for the National Student Association...

Author: By Trevor Barnes, | Title: The CIA: Sharing the Students | 4/18/1979 | See Source »

...academic integrity and freedom have little to do with such recruitment. Many who use this argument do so rather because they believe the CIA is a dishonorable organization and conclude that therefore academics should have no links with it whatsoever...

Author: By Trevor Barnes, | Title: The CIA: Sharing the Students | 4/18/1979 | See Source »

...thought we could have pulled it off," Meyer said after the match, but Dartmouth made fine use of an unusually slow surface and a capricious no-ad scoring system to bring the Crimson its seventh loss in ten matches and its third straight Ivy defeat...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Netwomen Fall to Big Green, 5-4; Record Now 3-7 | 4/17/1979 | See Source »

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