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Momentarily, 6-ft. 9-in. Laker James Worthy seemed about to redefine the forward position with his quickness, just as Magic Johnson, roughly the same size, has revolutionized guard play with his height. But the last few regulation seconds in Game 2 were unpromising for both men. Protecting a two...
Only a handful of my classmates went on to graduate school, and most of my classmates got married upon graduation, usually to worthy graduate students whom they would dutifully help, through law or medical school by working as researchers or secretaries. The height of their career aspirations, if they had...
Initially, the land-reform program was viewed with distaste by the Reagan Administration: the White House did not approve of government expropriation of private property. Gradually, however, the Administration has embraced agrarian reform as the kind of worthy effort in El Salvador that justifies large accompanying doses of U.S. military...
Fowler said later that in questioning the fairness of TV news he was merely reflecting "grumblings around the country." In particular, Fowler criticized news programs for showing President Reagan relaxing at his California ranch last September while a voice-over described the Soviet destruction of Korean Air Lines Flight 007...
William Butler Yeats tells of Icelandic peasants who found a skull in a cemetery and suspected it might be that of the poet Egill. "Its great thickness made them feel certain it was," he writes, but "to be doubly sure they put it on a wall and hit it hard...