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There's no complicated procedure vis-a-vis the kind of NFL playoff possibilities that The USA Today spends pages examining. It's plain and simple: Harvard wins its three remaining league contests (beginning this coming weekend at Penn and Princeton and concluding the following Friday night at home against Cornell) and Harvard wins the Ivy League championship...
...embarrassments of the past summer have only compounded Canadian paranoia vis-a-vis her giant neighbor. Statistics disclosed in June showed that Canada's economy continues to suffer feebly beside the U.S's robust (though inauspicious) financial recovery...
...American professor whose extensive lecture itinerary has temporarily stranded him at a dreary medieval conference in Rummidge, a drab, provincial English university. Also on hand to suffer the droning speeches and inedible food is Persse McGarrigle, a young Irishman who is a virgin both in the traditional sense and vis-a-vis the brave new world of gypsy scholars. What dazzles McGarrigle most about the proceedings is Angelica, a beautiful and budding literary critic who befriends him but mysteriously eludes his chivalrous advances. Persse muses: "It's as if she had a magic ring for making herself invisible...
...flame of liberty burns red-hot in Argentina." Taking note of Argentina's woes, Reagan advocated making "tough decisions" in the economic sphere, meaning austerity, as the best solution leading to recovery. Reagan also took the opportunity to extol his own hard-line policies in Central America, particularly vis-a-vis the leftist regime in Nicaragua. Said Reagan: "The free people of this hemisphere must not stand by and watch the Communist tyranny imposed on Nicaragua spread to the free lands of the Americas...
...include Syria, which has the muscle to hinder any settlement attempt. The Syrian Cabinet last week declared its intention to undermine the Mubarak-Hussein-Arafat initiative. Anyone who doubts Syria's resolve need only look at south Lebanon, where Shi'ite Muslims, inspired in part by Damascus' tough line vis-a-vis Israel, continue to attack Israeli forces. The Israelis, who are in the midst of withdrawing from south Lebanon, retaliated last week by staging raids on several Shi'ite villages suspected of harboring guerrillas. Against the backdrop of such continuing violence in Lebanon, the peace efforts of Mubarak...