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When games were on the line and Los Angeles needed baskets, it sent out a "quick team," which could maintain a tremendous level of defensive intensity for the duration of the 24-second shot clock. The Celtics would commit shot clock violations that led to Laker wins...
Students who applied for annex housing last year did not have to sign a room contract when they applied. For the upcoming school year, students must commit themselves to living in annex housing when they turn in their applications...
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Director Michael Radford is clearly less interested in restating this conclusion than he is in re-creating the crime's steaming social context. One noble lady (Sarah Miles) is introduced wearing a very large snake coiled chummily about her neck. Later she will commit a sexual act that may be unprecedented in general-release movies. Another titled woman (Jacqueline Pearce) will rise naked from her bath to lead her assembled guests -- of both sexes -- in a genial discussion of who will accompany her to bed. A rancher (the late Trevor Howard, in his last role) has cut a peephole...
THAT left Dukakis, the clean and simple candidate. He didn't run on any issues, nor did he wield the eloquence or sharpness of his competitors. He said he was pro-Israel, but refused to commit to specific plan for peace. He promised to recreate the Massachusetts Miracle nationwide, but failed to outline fiscal reforms beyond more stringent tax collection. Instead, he "stayed above the political strife" and presented himself as the only competent candidate with no outstanding faults...