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...vice president last spring, Liston repeatedly came under fire for administrative incompetence. He was nearly impeached for failing to expel more than a half-dozen council members with excessive absences...
...Rockefeller Center, located on the sixth floor of Coolidge Hall, will "complement the half-dozen existing international centers and will have some 100 faculty members affiliated with it at any given time," said John Coatsworth, Monroe Gutman professor of Latin American Affairs and the center's first director...
Harvard will certainly take the win, and the sign of a good soccer team is when it gets the victory without playing to its potential. The Crimson was bogged down with careless mental errors; it had a half-dozen offsides and three illegal throw-ins, to go along with numerous bad shots...
Just ask Bruce Willis, one of a half-dozen actors (along with Travolta, Thurman, Samuel L. Jackson, Ving Rhames and Harvey Keitel) who found some of the juiciest roles of their careers here: "You can say the most intellectual thing about Pulp Fiction and be right. But it also works for the trailer-park kids." It surely ought to work for those viewers lulled these many years by cinema soporifics. For 2 1(R)2 teeming hours it hits you like a shot of Adrenalin straight to the heart...
...silly for anyone to say that the club is operating more economically during the strike, it is especially inane for the comment to come from a vice president. Some of the club's "more economical" operations during the strike include paying its lawyers to go to court on a half-dozen occasions to have the name of the club's President, Don Shapiro, removed from our picket signs, hiring a full video crew to tape our children, who have had to use our picket line as a day care center, purchasing and installing state-of-the-art sound and video...