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...human rights champion. Before he began his speech, Author- Philosopher Elie Wiesel recited a Jewish prayer of gratitude, but the awful echoes of the occasion all but overwhelmed him. Accompanied to the podium by his 14-year-old son Shlomo Elisha, the Nobel laureate had to pause to regain his composure before addressing the audience of dignitaries. "Do I have the right to represent the multitudes who have perished?" asked Wiesel. "Do I have the right to accept this great honor on their behalf? I do not. No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated...
...visiting Jaspers--or the two officials--of their intentions. With the permission of the refs, therefore, Manhattan continued play and turned a would-be rout back into a game again. It eventually took a Mike Gielen four-point play with three minutes left in the contest for Harvard to regain firm hold on the game...
...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...
Still trying to regain last year's co-MVP form after missing more than a month of practice, Phillips also made four steals, grabbed three rebounds, and handed out two assists in his longest stint of the young season...
...Arne is still looking to regain his consistency," Roby said. "Hopefully, this game will get him going...