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Evidence indicates that if Clark knew his government was about to fall, he did little to avert defeat. His External Affairs minister was absent on a mission; one Member of Parliament was vacationing in tepid Fiji; and the fringe Social Credit party, which held five seats, received no concessions to discourage them from abstaining. As Prime Minister, Clark had the prerogative to postpone the debate until his wayward part members returned or until the Social Credit members could be brought around. The seven affirmative votes would have avoided defeat; Clark exerted no such efforts...
...there are no guarantees school will reopen peacefully. Although many parents and students attended Wenesday night's city-wide meeting, many were also absent, including many of East Cambridge residents who attended a wake for Colosimo instead...
...also a period, worldwide, both of intense nationalism and intense ethnic chauvinism, and the dangers of fragmentation which are not totally absent from these United States. Yet we are still a vital country, the intellectual and artistic capital of the would, and if we can get through the next years and maintain a modest comity of nationality without xenophobia, there are many grounds for hope. We must work for these, whatever our moments of despair, whether self-indulgent or prophetic...
Allen's private life is a taboo, reserved for the absent analyst, though the films are about him and intend us to imagine his complex 'interiority.' He's quite unable to imagine other people fully, as sufferers through the unspeakable Interiors will know. In Manhattan, though, he winningly has his ex-wife write about his obsessive narcissism, and the end of that film seems to me truer than anything he's done yet. Exactly because it's about the limitations of the Woody Allen persona, and the possibility that Mariel Hemingway stands for something different and better, that he ought...
...South House defense gave up its first points of the season late in the fourth quarter when Quincy reached paydirt following a fumble on SoHo's 13-yd. line. Joe Scipione, playing for absent signal caller Lon Hatamiya, scored on a nine yard run with 1:04 remaining...