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Dartmouth has the inside track among the three, having beaten Cornell and Yale already. Remaining for the Big Green are Brown, Columbia and Princeton. Cornell and Yale face off against each other next Saturday in New Haven...
What to do with the videotapes is a question that all the couples face. Many erase them soon after filming, fearful children or household help will stumble across them. When tapes become public, the humiliation can be intense. The sheriff of Morris County, Kans., filmed his wife and himself with a rented video camera and mistakenly returned the camera to the store -- with the tape inside. Copies quickly circulated around the town of Council Grove. Eventually, the sheriff had to resign, and the couple left town...
...great society dreamed of by John Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. and planned by Lyndon Johnson has not come to pass. America's racial problem is exacerbated by the de facto exclusion of blacks from the core of national politics, in part because, traditionally Democrats, they face an age of Republican hegemony in the White House. In an era of weakened Federal Government, blacks feel increasingly isolated. It was the Federal Government, after all, that saved them twice in history: from slavery in the 19th century; from segregation in the 20th. The reduction of that government's powers...
...where he remained holed up last week, had revolted against the accord because it provided no timetable for the withdrawal of Syrian forces in Lebanon, who number 40,000. France has granted Aoun asylum, but Lebanese President Elias Hrawi's government insists that he remain in the country to face trial for, among other things, allegedly pilfering $75 million from the treasury...
Such suggestions, however, go unheard in the storm of protest that erupts whenever anyone even raises these ideas. Politicians would sooner face Iraqi tanks than irate seniors, whose favorite form of low-impact aerobics is pulling the lever in voting booths. Nearly 61% of Americans 65 and over voted in 1986, compared with about 22% of those between the ages of 18 and 24. Meanwhile, the American Association of Retired Persons, with 31 million members and a 1988 budget of $236 million, is among the most powerful lobbies on Capitol Hill. Alongside it is the even more militant National Committee...