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Counting the woeful Colts, Indianapolis seems to have grabbed up most of the amateur athletics in the country and, for the past two weeks, has gone international as the tenth host of the quadrennial Pan American Games. Sort of a hemispheric Olympics, though with moderate attendance and meager television ratings, the Pan Am Games provide a warm-up for both pole vaulters and political commentators, as well as an opportunity to avoid the crowds and defect early. So far, ten Dominicans have absconded to New York City...
...Crimson stumbled, finishing only three games better than last year's woeful 6-20 edition. The Harvard party line on its difficulties this season pointed time and again to the Crimson's youth...
Dunne's is a cold, cruel and murderous world observed from an emotional distance. "I am by disposition one of life's neutrals, a human Switzerland," says Jack Broderick, the novel's woeful narrator. He combines the characteristics of a disillusioned moralist with the casualness of an old- fashioned remittance man. A $10 million trust fund from his billionaire father allows him to play at making a living, if not a life...
...those things come to the President as naturally as breathing. Are they a sign of renewed vitality or a desperate camouflage of decay? The underlying instincts that once enabled him to judge correctly the men about him, the internal commitment and fire that carried him beyond his woeful failures to marshal the facts, the old surges of common sense that helped him hold the national trust are what are in question...
...truth that women have long known: pornography harms women and children." Hunter tapped a different strand of feminist thinking: women should seek liberation, not special protection from the state. "Protectionist attitudes," she said, "ultimately hurt women." Friedan once again declared that the war against porn is a woeful waste of energies needed on the economic and legal fronts. Said she: "As repulsive as pornography can be, the obsession with it is a dangerous diversion for the women's movement...