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...interesting enough to say on exams and papers to get the grader flustered, but you are not thorough enough to impress with footnotes in the original Sanskrit. Neither a bullshit artist, a workaholic, nor a genius, the soul in this circle sees his papers and exams as an endless string of B-plusses, while the operators one floor up in GPA heaven thumb their noses and jangle their Phi Beta Kappa keys at the brighter minds below...
Then, only days later, the Minutemen's second string signalcaller went down with a jammed thumb. He will miss about a month...
Former Defensive Line Coach Ed Zubrow steps in to replace miracle worker Jerry Berndt (who departs for Rice) as the Quakers set out to match Dartmouth's record string of five consecutive Ivy titles this fall. (The Big Green ruled the Ancient Eight from...
More arrests, more convictions, longer sentences, more seizures of drug dealers' assets. It is possible to string together statistics suggesting that the war on narcotics on the streets of U.S. cities shows promise of being won. What is not possible is to get a single law-enforcement officer to believe it. Instead, all over the country, lawmen wail that their best efforts are being overwhelmed by the sheer volume of drug traffic. "You can't say anything is working," admits Jim Goudy, commander of the Houston police narcotics division. In Boston, Deputy Superintendent William Celester concedes that raids on crack...
...time he was 16, he made it to Houston, where he "slept on anybody's couch until I wore out my welcome." He hooked up with his uncle Nick Fain, who had lived with the family for a while and taught his nephew the rudiments of six-string rock guitar. "He was only five years older than I was," Earle says. "He was my hero." A friendship with Townes Van Zandt started Earle down the folk-music trail, where he eventually landed jobs on the coffeehouse circuit. "There was lots of noise and smoke. I became the world's loudest...