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...adorable eight-year-old boy and his loving dad, a has-been boxer. The action is pure hokum. Will Dad throw off his addictions to gambling and booze and make a comeback in the ring? Will Dad's exwife, now a remarried society lady, try to regain custody of the son she once abandoned? Will Dad and Mom fall in love again? Will the son's pet horse win the race at Hialeah? The heart boggles...
...Harvard heavyweight crew opens its 1979 season today at the San Diego Crew Classic where Harry Parker's oarsmen begin their battle to regain supremacy after a disappointing 1978 campaign...
...Sadat's remarks welcoming Carter, the Egyptian leader pointedly referred to the linkage question. Said Sadat: "We are determined to enable our Palestinian brothers to realize their national rights and regain their freedom." This prompted Carter to depart from his prepared response in order to include "the Palestinians" among those who would benefit from "the state of peace for this region." Carter also assured Sadat that an Israeli-Egyptian agreement would only be part of "a comprehensive peace, a peace that would reflect the legitimate needs of all those who have suffered so deeply during the last 30 years...
...rise and consolidate their power. Next comes the Terror, when the regime desperately tries to accomplish revolutionary goals no matter what the cost in blood. This horror often engenders a Thermidorean reaction (named for Thermidor, the month of the French revolutionary calendar in which the reaction occurred), when moderates regain control and the nation begins a period of convalescence. But ahead lies the danger of the fifth stage: the coming of a dictator still fired by some revolutionary zeal, and beyond that, the possibility, of a Bourbonism restored...
...great American experiment is fast approaching its second childhood. If tutorials are ever to regain their value as a pedagogical tool, faculty must collectively commit themselves to the business of educating undergraduates...