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...Though the team didn't have a winning year, this had to be the highlight of the season. For me it was the culmination of all that I had learned during my football career here, especially in the way I was able to read defenses. Coach Restic had a great game plan that day, and that didn't hurt either...
...ignorance is debilitating neither professionally nor personally." However Bernard Bailyn, Winthrop Professor of History and another Core architect, who apparently does not care for Bossert's sense of humor, replied simply that the Core is not an attempt to survey all the major areas of knowledge," but instead a highlight of the most essential, "core" areas...
...U.S.S.R. for ten days. Although he missed TV and cheeseburgers, he enjoyed early morning jogs through Red Square. "I never saw a people so peaceful and orderly," he said. Looking a paunchy 235 Ibs., he also lumbered through two-round exhibition matches with three top Soviet heavyweights. The highlight of the trip was a 35-minute interview with Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev. Recalled Ali: "He gave me a hug, and I gave him a hug. All he talked was peace, peace, peace. I felt like the black President...
...eagerly were hands outstretched and backs slapped, so boisterously were politicians crowded round, that it might have been a presidential candidate barnstorming the country. But the center of the commotion was Israeli Premier Menachem Begin, who toured the U.S. last week to highlight celebrations of the 30th anniversary of the founding of Israel (May 11). Though the eight-day trip had been planned six months in advance, it happened to come at a delicate moment in U.S.-Israeli relations: the U.S. Congress was embroiled in controversy over a complex, three-way airplane sale to the Middle East. Rarely...
...been fighting nuclear power in their own communities (New England has seven licensed reactors, one under construction, and eight more proposed) and formed an umbrella organization, the Clamshell Alliance. The name honors the first people to oppose the Seabrook plant, the clam diggers of Seabrook, in order to highlight the fact that the alliance gains its power from local working-class concerns about nuclear power's effect on the quality of life and the ability to earn a living...