Word: finalized
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Harvard's victory came after a close brush with defeat, when in the third round it lost to Berkeley and fell behind the Californians a full point, 3-2. It remained behind the west coast team until the sixth and final round, when fourth-ranked Toronto edged Berkeley and Harvard defeated Minnesota, raising its score to a tying five points...
Geer added that once the final Environmental Impact Report on the project is issued later this month, residents will have only about three weeks to comment on its conclusions, giving them little time to resist the plan...
Both have been accused of stealing hundreds of millions of dollars and hiding their fortunes abroad while reducing their poverty-stricken peoples to even worse states of poverty. Both created secret police forces to do their bidding, and both suppressed opponents without mercy. Both seemed to acquire the final illusion of the corrupted dictator, the megalomaniacal fantasy that he owns his country as a private possession, and that his people admire his strength. Sic semper tyrannis...
Triumph of the Spirit might be expected to transcend this label, if only because of one line in the movie's final credits: "Filmed on location at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camps." Co-producer Arnold Kopelson won ! permission from Polish authorities to use the huge camps (now museums) as the setting for his story. How chilling it must have been for the actors and especially the extras -- many of them Auschwitz survivors -- to see the place restored as if in full working order...
Over and over, as if to exorcise the evil of Nicolae Ceausescu's ironfisted 24-year reign, national television last week replayed the taped record of his final ignominious hours. Haggard, wrapped in a fur-lined overcoat, his hair in tangles, he sat with his wife Elena behind two folding tables pushed together to form a makeshift dock...