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Until March 15, when the exhibition closes, it will provide a needed complement to the Museum of Fine Arts' exhaustive collection of portraits of dead patriots and obscure colonial governors...
...extramarital relations are almost universally condemned. Every known human society forbids incest, but nearly all have a recognized procedure for divorce, which in the U.S. reaches a peak around the third year of marriage. A curious cementing factor in societies allowing free mate selection is that partners tend to complement each other's psychological needs-for example, "a highly hostile individual would seek to mate with a highly abasing person...
Along with Humenuk the Crimson will start Scott Harshbarger and Wait Grant at halfback and Bill Grans at full- back. As a trio they complement each other perfectly: Grant has speed; Harshbargor has trickiness and is a good pass receiver; and Grana has power. Behind them are halfbacks John Dockery, who continues as the great surprise of the team, and Tom Bilodeau, fullback Stan-Yastrsemaki, and Mike Bassett. Don't forget...
...Soviet Union already possesses a booster far more powerful than any developed by NASA. Thus the five billion dollar project to produce the Saturn booster could be slowed. Each country has progressed far ahead of the other in some facets of space research; many future advances will undoubtedly complement each other, filling gaps that would have been costly to fill independently and preventing duplication of research. Ruseian-American co-operation would also remove from the cold war an achievement which should belong to everyone...
This organizational change will complement a theological reform that presumably will be enacted by the council in the first item on the session's agenda: De Ecclesia (On the Church). Since the definition of papal infallibility in 1870, bishops have often seemed to be little more than Vatican errand boys. Yet the traditional teaching of the church is that bishops are just as truly descendants of the apostles as the Pope -a doctrine that will be brought out with new clarity in De Ecclesia...