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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...will be held the last mass-meeting before the game. Even the great Living Room will be too small to hold all those who come to show the team their loyalty and interest. Such occasions, when entirely spontaneous, are not merely demonstrations over one team: they express in a wider sense the devotion of us all to the University...
...rays from a range of sources including stars, galaxies and black holes. "LAMAR will allow us to precisely locate various cosmic objects and lead us to a better understanding of their nature," Gorenstein said, adding that LAMAR's bank of reflectors will also simultaneously survey the universe at a wider angle than previously possible...
FIVE GROUPS PARTICIPATED IN TERRORIST ORGANIZATION TO SEIZE POWER, cried the headline in Cairo's semiofficial newspaper Al Ahram. Last week, in a kind of interim report on its investigations into the assassination of Anwar Sadat, government officials said the plot was far wider than had originally been suspected. Right after the killing, officials had insisted that only four men were involved. But according to President Hosni Mubarak, who succeeded Sadat, at least 700 people were part of a web of revolutionaries whose general aim was to overthrow the government. Said Mubarak: "Security in our country is my first...
Jefferson has undergone even wider swings in the historical standings, perhaps the greatest for any President. He had savage critics while he was in office; "Mad Tom" was one of their epithets for him. (Washington was called "a tyrant" and Lincoln "a baboon." Lyndon Johnson, touchingly, took comfort in those contemporary misjudgments.) The conservative Northeast historians of the 19th century held essentially to the Hamiltonian belief in a strong central government and saw Jefferson as the exponent of weak government and of an excessive trust in the people. Jefferson did not fare much better with progressives, who loved the people...
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