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...grandest grand opening celebrations in Cambridge history, the $75 million, 4-2 acre Charles Square complex opened its doors over the weekend to crowds of curious visitors...
Much of the rest of the world is at least very, very curious. In Japan, 200,000 copies of Iacocca have been sold in one month. It is first on the London Daily Mail's best-seller list, a bootleg edition is available in Bangkok, and the book is considered a must-read among the Saudi technocratic elite. Says Michigan Governor James Blanchard of his state's favorite son: "Iacocca is the most revered businessman in the world...
Should Cooney pick up the pace of his curious career and decide he would like to improve on the 13 rounds they fought in 1982, Holmes would be pleased. "But I don't think he's coming back, do you? Deep down inside, Cooney really don't impress himself." By this standard, Holmes is fulfilled. "As a boxer, you got to put me up there with all of the top three," he figures, "Marciano, Louis and Muhammad Ali. I just didn't have the charisma. If Ali came in here now (Holmes is speaking in a restaurant), right away...
Well, o.k., many conservatives, reply we acknowledge the value of education but let those who can't aford private universities go to state schools. This has to be the most curious part of the fiscal watchdogs' argument; if one takes their rhetoric seriously, one would think that schools like Harvard area conservative's dream. Private education relieves government of some of the responsibility of educating the citizenry. It's voluntarism at its best. Sure, under the present system, Uncle Sam picks up part of the tuition tab, but the bulk of he funding comes from private sources Guaranteed student loans...
Apart from all its banality, Mass Appeal is a curious film: curiously irreligious for a film which professes to be about religion, albeit mass-produced And more offensively, strangely self-important for a presumably comic film: centered around the burning question "Is there a place for ethics in the priesthood?" it provokes instead the query: "Is there a place for priests in Hollywood?" We wonder what may have been the roic of "technical advisor" Father Joseph Battaglia: maybe to show them...