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Nigeria's constitution combines features of both the American federal system and the British Parliamentary system. However, the three semi-autonomous regions of the country willingly allow the central government to provide assistance in areas like education. They do not jealously guard their powers, as do states in the U.S., Onyeama said...
...production becomes crucial: a play so nonchalant and brittle needs more than the intelligent off-Broadway staging it has been given. It needs more gloss, more speed, more edged insouciance, needs the light shrug, the swift glance, the faint smile, the finished gesture, the unfinished comment that endow the semi-frivolous with airiness and enlarge the semi-serious into an attitude...
Harvard was expected to take only three fourth-places, but Bob Kolodney upset two seeded competitors and will enter the semi-finals today. Four other Crimson matmen survived the opening round, but lost in the quarter-finals. Coach Bob Pickett described the team's performance at "beyond expectation...
...meter diving the Crimson did not fare so well. Clark Peters was eliminated in the first round, and Jeff Lewy was a disappointing thirteenth in the semi-finals. Eight divers qualified for tomorrow night's finals...
...difficult, as unproductive efforts in a few Houses have already shown. Yet House Seminars can be more than an addition to course offerings: they can present a new sense of what the world is like outside the College, if they over-come the temptation to merely offer more semi-academic training. The effort is very much worth making...