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THIS WEEK, HRAI has once again presented Harvard with a slate of three prisoners being held against the dictums of the United Nations Human Right Resolution on its 36th anniversary. There is Mila Aguilar, literary scholar and activist in the Phillipines, who was arrested ostensibly for "subversion." Through this charge was later changed to possession of subversive documents for which she was allowed to post bail, she was not released, but rather kept in solitary confinement. She is the aunt of Eric Aguilar San Juan...

Author: By David W. Bliss, | Title: Doing Right, Right | 12/12/1984 | See Source »

...bloody confrontation between militants of the 180,000-member National Union of Mineworkers and the state-owned National Coal Board entered its 36th week, the most disruptive labor unrest the country has witnessed since the General Strike of 1926 was no longer just a power struggle between miners and mine managers over the issue of unproductive collieries. Instead, with economic losses mounting and with television providing scenes of charging mounted police and rock-throwing strikers, the dispute had become a national trauma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: Bloody Strike | 11/26/1984 | See Source »

...have been produced more than 140 times in British, Canadian and U.S. theaters. Wilbur's fluency in replicating 17th century rhymed couplets suggests he was born to the task. In fact, he had only high school French when he landed in southern France in 1944 with the U.S. 36th Division. Most of the soldiers in his unit were country boys from Texas, and Wilbur was enlisted as the company interpreter. Mostly, he recalls, he talked to the French about "what we might want to requisition, like a wheel of cheese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Couriers of the Human Spirit | 11/19/1984 | See Source »

Harvard domination of attacking play paid off at long last in the 36th minute when Captain Lane Kenworthy, taking a free kick inside the area, pushed the ball directly in front of the goal in freshman midfielder Mark Pepper, who chipped it over the hand of the Brandeis 'keeper to drew within one before half...

Author: By Kevin Carter, | Title: Booters Drop Opener at Brandeis, 3-2, Crimson Dominates, Judges Prevail | 9/20/1984 | See Source »

Fielding's Europe 1983 Fielding; $12.95. This is the 36th annual edition of the late Temple Fielding's gentlemanly survey of Europe's palaces, fleshpots and spas. Oldfashioned, with an unabashed dollop of modest sexism (the text refers to Fielding's wife as "my Nancy"), it is written in a style once aptly described as "Rotarian baroque" and infused with a crusader's zeal. Occasionally, there is a pawky sense of humor at work: of Claridge's hotel in London, Fielding observes, "Finding space will be the problem, since it is inhabited by client...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Why Not the Best? | 7/25/1983 | See Source »

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