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...ironwoman Shelby Calvert, the women's swim team defeated Boston College 78-62 yesterday at B.C., in spite of a team virus that knocked three Crimson starters out of the lineup...
...storefront may be garish, the prices high, the door always locked ("We're washing the floor") for just that half hour at dawn when you succumb to the temptation to walk over. Still, almost in spite of itself, Store 24 has managed to become something of a cult phenomenon in its nine years in the Square. About three-quarters of the 1800 people who pass through in a day are regulars, Higgins estimates--commuters stopping in before or after work, Harvard staff or faculty buying lunch, students buying everything under...
...astronauts started nine days of more formal debriefings, answering the questions of their engineering colleagues, doing a stint in the flight simulator to check whether it accurately reflects what happens in space, and reporting to the space center's director, Christopher Kraft Jr. The preliminary verdict: in spite of problems before and during the flight, Columbia was, in that venerable NASA expression...
...relationship than we have with them in Europe." In meetings with heads of states "in every instance... they have responded with statements to the effect that they had better relations than they've ever had before with our country." Was this just seller's enthusiasm, or in spite of all evidence to the contrary, did Reagan really believe it? Had he reached such conclusions as a result of his genuine hospitality as host along with his known reluctance to get into contentious details? An astonishing insight into Reagan's attitude, this was the most disquieting and lasting...
...none of these things would have served Mr. Stockman one whit better than the Trojan horse image, which, in spite of its essential flaw, still combines deception with dignity. So does Mr. Stockman. Chagrined now, he turns his figure of speech against himself, contending that it is he who has assumed the role of the "wooden beast without a brain." But the image is inappropriate again. Mr. Stockman is far from brainless, and hardly a beast. He has simply risked his kingdom for a metaphor...