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...says his organization checked "up and down the line" and concluded "it was not this campaign and not our people in Iowa." Could it, however, have been a campaign ally -- a financial backer, say, or a media consultant -- acting without the knowledge of Dukakis' headquarters? Says Tully: "That would astound...
This ultimate scrapbook suggests an inevitable question: Why would anyone want to know the Lord's Prayer in Maltese, the age at which John Stuart Mill began learning Greek (three) or any of the other variegated trivia Bryan has gathered? Answer: to enrich the mind, astound friends and amuse dinner-table partners. The latter objective receives its own 19-entry chapter, in which Novelist Virginia Faulkner's advice is cited: "I ask the gentleman on my right, 'Are you a bed-wetter?', and when we have exhausted that, I remark to the gentleman on my left, 'You know, I spit...
Other students found the tree inspiring. SaidF. Jackson Lewis '89, a resident of Eliot Housewho lived in Matthews last year: "Inauspiciousnow, it will astound future generations in itsgrace and beauty...
Schroeder's joviality and fast recovery astound his doctors...
While upsets tend to astound every season, few upstarts in the past have shown the flair of modest Syracuse, which was shut out by both Rutgers and Florida but shut down mammoth Nebraska in between. Also familiar is the critical call missed by the harried field judge, yet how often are apologies telephoned to the slighted coach? Two days after being tied by Texas, Oklahoma's Barry Switzer heard last week from the supervisor of officials that, as a matter of fact, there had been an interception in the end zone on the play prior to the Longhorns...