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...Harvard women's soccer team is hoping to improve on its third place finish of a year ago with the aid of a few freshmen prospects of their own to complement a solid, experienced squad...
National Political Correspondent Laurence I. Barrett, who analyzed the findings of this week's TIME poll on the candidates, crossed paths with Shapiro in Houston during the Democratic candidates' debate there in July. This early in the campaign, however, Shapiro and Barrett prefer to complement rather than duplicate each other's work. Being on the hustings always satisfies both the journalist and the graduate student in Shapiro. "It's a great opportunity to write about grand themes and also to be a bit irreverent," he says. "After all, if you can't be irreverent about the people running for office...
...when the measure reached the President's desk last week, he treated it as not ready for prime time. He signed the bill without a complement of aides and legislators crowding around him. Why none of the hoopla that sometimes accompanies such signings? The President, said a spokesman, was signaling his belief that the new law "throws too much money at programs that have a mixed record" of success...
...hasn't. After more than three unsuccessful years of searching for the killer, morale on the Green River task force has occasionally withered. The force has shrunk from 55 staffers last fall, its highest number, to the current complement, as personnel have been redeployed to join the fight against Seattle's growing drug problems...
Alan Bloom, the author of "The Closing of the American Mind," bemoans the relativism which he says holds away over the minds of the young. All things are thought to be equal--good and bad are merely labels, and therefore mean nothing. But one wonders if its complement--mindless absolutism--and the conviction that the world is made up of some angels and some devils, bodes any better...