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Trinity may provide stiff competition for even a wide-awake team. Harvard squeaked past the Hilltoppers 15-12, last year and Trinity looks as good as ever this season...
...poverty, Somalia is a stiff-necked nation. Its people pride themselves on their Hamitic heritage, their nomad hardiness. No Somali youth feels secure without an iron bracelet-won only by killing two men in combat. Argumentative and fiercely antiauthoritarian, the Somalis are often called the "Irish of Africa," although as Moslems they prefer cold camel's milk to a headier gargle. Well-meaning foreigners who stroll into their quaint, collapsible villages (stick-and skin aghals that can be packed onto camelback in a matter of minutes) often find themselves on the receiving end of accurately thrown stones...
...Measures." As Moscow told it some 30 hours later in a stiff note protesting the U.S.'s "gross provocation," Russian MIG fighters had been sent up to intercept the wandering T-39. The MIGs, claimed the Russians, had signaled with conventional "follow-me" wigwags, and followed that with a warning burst of gunfire. When the T-39 "did not react," said the note, the fighters were "forced to undertake measures" to protect East German airspace...
...Class. Couve de Murville is in the tradition of his famous predecessors. He shares with Richelieu a mastery of detail and an acute sense of the true political situation, and possesses much of the glacial calm and stiff self-control of Talleyrand. So far, he has been the nearly flawless tactician of De Gaulle's grand strategy with its goals of 1) primacy in Europe, 2) increasing independence from the U.S., and 3) emergence as leader of the world's third force...
...Listen, Almighty, with all your might," cries the speaker, shouting her furious prayer over the orchestra's anguished scream. "You show me nothing at all," she tells God, and the orchestra blares Amen. But that seems a bit stiff...