Word: posted
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Rupp, who holds degrees from Harvard, Princeton and Yale, left his post as dean of the Harvard Divinity School in 1985 to become president of Rice in Houston...
...trouble putting the ball to bed. Opponent Richard Chin, who pulled out one of Cornell's two victories in last year's match, came out with a vengeance. He beat Clark in the first two matches. Clark, however, pulled out, first his cannon serve, then his criss-cross, to post the victory...
Many articulate opinions were still being expressed in favor of the war effort. Gerald R. Thompson of Chesterfield, Mo., wrote in a letter to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: "The crisis in the gulf is driven by economic realities, not just political ideals. Black gold, or Texas tea, is worth shedding American lives for because oil is the blood that flows through the veins of the American economy. Without economic freedom, our political freedom is in serious trouble. The two go hand in hand...
...always been a cruel and hopeless mess. Perestroika has been largely a matter of restructuring a ruin, a contradiction in terms that makes for a sorry spectacle. Yet the world is, as never before, invited to watch. Glasnost has led to a kind of reverse, and perverse, Potemkinism, a post-Soviet tendency to portray the situation as even worse than...
...past summer, the highly traditional movement has been forced in recent years to shed some flab and check its compass. Static enrollments five years ago persuaded the national office in Irving, Texas, to commission a marketing study, which concluded that the Boy Scouts were dangerously out of step with post-1960s America; the public still imagined uniformed do-gooders who tie knots and help old folks across the street. One solution: the Scout Handbook was revised to show more minority scouts in action and offer advice on such off-campground problems as AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, child abuse...