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Three candidates have thrown in their hats into the ring to succeed Middlesex D.A. L. Scott Harshbarger '64, who is running for state attorney general. The top contenders appear to be State Rep. Joseph K. Mackey and Harshbarger's former chief deputy, Thomas F. Reilly...
...final Columbia drive of the game, it was Gordian to the rescue again, picking off an under-thrown Mayhew pass intended for Solomon Johnson...
...Ginsberg, who recalls being thrown out of a third floor classroom and being called a "Jewboy," and who has lived with constant violence since he moved to the kibbutz adjacent to the war-torn Lebanese border, "the rest of the world can go fuck itself...
Bush's remarkable progress in welding together an international coalition to oppose Iraq's aggression has thrown into even higher relief the sluggish, indecisive pace he has set on domestic affairs since taking office. Lack of progress on the deficit is only one symptom of the governmental gridlock that has become the rule in Washington. Although both the House and Senate passed versions of legislation that would for the first time establish a national child-care system, the bill has been stalled in a conference committee. So has the Clean Air Act, which would curb noxious emissions into the atmosphere...
...children take delight in things that grownups find gross? While most adults just sit and ponder this question, a few entrepreneurs cannily exploit it. Just in time for the back-to-school season, for example, is Spit-Wads, a synthetic "tossing dough." The sticky substance, thrown by hand rather than propelled through a straw, was invented by oil-refinery worker Ted Skup. "We got the idea at lunchtime. We were talking about the Pet Rock and things we could sell about $20 million worth of, and it just popped into my head." Skup and a partner started IQCO Inc., which...