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Leverett, Kirkland, Quincy and Currier will still be the only Houses offering full breakfasts, Weissbecker said. He added that his office has been considering the increased cold breakfast service for some time, and that student requests did not spark the decision...
...memory of Elton's power to evoke a mellowness or an up-beat rowdiness, his power to make people buy his records and keep them on the radio, makes Elton John's Greatest Hits Volume II a sad record. It contains little of the spark to be found in his first collection of hits. If Elton's music changed in the first half of this decade from quiet piano-and-voice cuts to glitter-and-guitar tunes, it still had an original fire in it that shows in his first collection, released in 1974. The collection traced Elton's history...
...later proved disastrous when the revolutionaries found themselves cut off, alienated from the Bolivian peasants who feared them, and isolated from the leftist students and workers in the cities who might have helped if they could. Bolivia is bordered by five countries, and Che hoped it would be the spark that would ignite the tinderboxes of its neighbors: Chile, Peru, Brazil, Paraguay, and most important, Che's Argentine homeland. He also hoped to tie up the United States, at the time busily murdering Vietnamese. U.S. intervention in Bolivia would almost have certainly brought down U.S-supported dictatorships in other South American...
...Bunis dropped his first-round "C" match to the Elis' ambidextrous Jim Kaufman, but then Pompan caught fire in that division to provide the most spark in a generally lackluster Crimson effort...
...even though the famous names are as familiar to the reader as grocery lists, the pieces fail to capture the spark that brought fame to the subject. They are meandering and not especially compelling...