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...Alcorn, executive director of the Harvard Square Business Association, a sponsor of the Winterfest. Alcorn said that a sharp curve in the slide's track collapsed yesterday morning, leaving a slide which "would have sent riders flying into Au Bon Pain [the adjacent bakery]," had officials not decided to destroy the structure...

Author: By Barnes C. Ellis, | Title: First Snowfall Short Lived Warmer Winter Predicted | 2/3/1986 | See Source »

WHAT GILLIAM GIVES us here is a masterpiece of irony--inhumanity with a human face. The same storm-troopers who destroy the Buttle home are later seen relaxing among themselves, complaining about how hot their uniforms are, and even practicing Christmas carols. Within the Ministry itself, barried, faceless clerks evade the hawkish eyes of their supervisors in order to watch Casablanca on their telescreens. Although these people are serving under a brutal system, they are nonetheless living creatures, unlike the automatons of Orwell's novel. There is even a resistance movement, evidencing itself in a variety of sudden explosions, which...

Author: By Benjamin N. Smith, | Title: Brazil's Flying Circus | 1/31/1986 | See Source »

Inside Cameron Indoor Stadium, 6500 fans assembled Monday night, almost all with a single purpose in mind: destroy the Harvard basketball team...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Not Just `Tree City USA' | 1/30/1986 | See Source »

...would suffer. In the second place, no one has produced any hard evidence for the record that Libya harbors the terrorists concerned here. For that matter, no one has established the terrorists' identity. Israeli officials have said the culprit probably isn't Abu Nidal; their conclusion would appear to destroy Reagan's theory prima facie. And in addition, even Reagan's Defense Department, in its report on the airport murders, didn't blame Libya...

Author: By Gary L. Sussman, | Title: Don't Dictate To Europe | 1/15/1986 | See Source »

...graver concern, he insisted, was the U.S. challenge. "There is only one pressure," he said. "That is the military, political and economic pressure of the United States." The Nicaraguan people, he added, "see the U.S.-sponsored counterrevolution destroy the schools, health centers, cooperatives. This causes people to commit themselves more readily to the patriotic military service." The "so-called Third World countries," he continued, must also worry. "If the U.S. invades Nicaragua," he said, "then this endangers the security of all developing countries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nicaragua the Revolution Is Not Finished | 12/30/1985 | See Source »

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