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Using a new scoring system--that awards 7-4-3-2-1 points for first-through-fifth places as opposed to the old 5-3-1 method--for only the second time ever, Harvard (4-0 overall, 2-0 Ivy League) still cruised to victory, taking 12 of the 16 events and clinching the meet with three events still left to be swum...
...scoring method is only used this year in meets outside the Ivy League...
This damage control method is the teflon of our "teflon President." Reagan has played the same game in every major political scrape throughout his Administration. He used it after the breakdown of the Reykjavik summit, after the Libyan disinformation scandal and during the coming to power of Corazon Aquino in the Philippines. Reagan has applied this method to the Iran crisis in an effort to regain his stature. But this time the damage control has failed. The media has so far sustained its onslaught...
...REAGAN'S tried and true damage control method suddenly break down so dramatically? For several reasons. Certainly, the magnitude and visibility of the crisis was a factor. The arms deal involves allegations of criminal conduct, incompetence and rotten policy at the highest levels of the government...
...said the handcuffing and a method known as "painful compliance" through the application of a device called a kubuton on the body's pressure points made the observers uncomfortable...