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...northern provinces sometimes look as if they had been visited by a plague. Once lively villages are now ghost towns, while others are inhabited only by the old and the young. Recent government restrictions on emigration have scarcely slowed the exodus, and those who want to leave simply slip across the border at night. "We are at the bottom of any economic indicator you want to take," laments Francisco Pinto Balsemào, editor of the weekly Expresso. "Our only competitor is Albania. Even the East European countries have passed...
...Robert Merriwether, a Harvard professor, 42, still fit from sculling on the Charles-and lonely from puttering in the lab-makes the familiar, by now ritualistic slip. While wife and children splash off the coast of Maine, he has an affair with a Radcliffe summer student, a girl young enough, as the saying goes, to be his daughter...
...freshman soccer team battled back from an early deficit yesterday to slip by Andover, 3-2, and up its season's mark...
...themselves. Tony Volpe has a young tiger hidden in the back room under a sheet. It's totally out of character, but he loves it, hides it, and starts babbling about William Blake when he sees it. The others laugh at him, as they do when Charlie lets slip his private conversations with God. Embarrassing moments like these lunge out from beneath the film's membrane as brutally as the violence does. They're both violations of a stern status...
Scrounged Runs. The production had no sooner opened, though, when the jester started to steal the hero's lines. Met Second Baseman Felix Millan, who made only nine errors all season, gave the A's the first game when he let an easy ground ball slip past his glove. "The ball never bounce," said the Puerto Rican sadly after the 2-1 loss. In view of the anemia that was suddenly afflicting red-blooded A's hitters like Reggie Jackson, Williams could only welcome the gift. Said he: "We'll scrounge all the runs...