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...head. While up on the Hill the red cheeked St. Tip Prepares for his final tiff with the Gip. Here is Cambridge the season is merry as ever. Full of papers unwritten and students unclever. And as dining halls shut and the dorms get much colder. The deadlines slip by, growing older and older. But though papers be late and our grades more displeasin', We couldn't forget our own gift list this season...
...very cheap. For just 1% of the cost of Star Wars, you could have a set of spectacular missions from now to the beginning of the next century. The answer to the origins of the universe might be within our grasp. It would be a shame to let it slip away...
...seats will reduce the G.O.P. majority to 53 to 47. Moreover, the ideological tilt will be even greater than the simple partisan tally indicates, since the two lost Republican seats are going, in effect, to liberal Democrats. Because of the shift, the Senate is more likely to slip back under Democratic sway in 1986, when almost twice as many Republicans as Democrats will be running for reelection. The results also showed the rise to power of a new generation. Three of the five freshman Democratic Senators-John Kerry of Massachusetts, Tom Harkin of Iowa and Albert Gore Jr. of Tennessee...
...however, remains very strong. Andrew Sullivan stands out in the role of Alan Strong as he successfully captures the character's volatile yet vulnerable nature. Throughout the play he shifts between the boy's external awkwardness and internal anguish with remarkable case. Though some of the English accents occasionally slip, the play always carries an air on believability, right down to the six actors imitating horses...
...page report, the commission painted a grim picture of artful operators who slip by current provisions of the federal Bank Secrecy Act. They pour huge amounts of cash into banks almost with blithe abandon, then withdraw it practically at will. The present law, passed in 1970, calls for a bank to notify federal authorities whenever a deposit exceeds $10,000. The law, though, has often been ineffective, in part because of wrist-slapping fines of only $1,000 against banks that fail to report the large deposits...