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...majority has a responsibility to respect those needs; does this mean that the majority should refrain from anything to which a significant minority objects, perhaps at the expense of being insensitive to needs of "majority students"? One suspects that if this were the case Harvard would have to abandon its four-day recess in November as being clearly discriminatory: there are many foreign students at Harvard for whom that break is doubtless too short a time to get home, even not to celebrate Thanksgiving...
British officials privately admit they see little hope of ever bringing South Armagh under control, and they doubt that Catholics who support "the boys" will be impressed even by such a major British gesture as London's recent decision to abandon its hated internment policy in Northern Ireland. "Militarily, it's a no-win situation," admits one official...
...night. By all accounts, she really did leave A.B.T. for personal reasons. Upset for months about the breakup of her nine-year marriage to A.B.T. Principal Dancer Terry Orr, and confronted more recently by a new ballet season and a new relationship with another man, Gregory decided to abandon her 14-year career...
...Home, The Changing Room and The Contractor, each of which won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award as the best play of its season, Storey austerely refused to proffer any hints as to the specific meaning of the work. In Life Class, he scatters clues with abandon, rather like confetti at a wedding, which often blinds viewers to the event it is intended to celebrate...
Although the Third World population is literally exploding-there are 200,000 new mouths to feed every day-the land available for growing food is diminishing. In many parts of the developing world, valuable farm acreage has been abandoned because of urban sprawl, soil erosion and desert encroachment. As life in the countryside becomes too wretched to endure, millions of peasants abandon their farms and head for the slums of the developing world's cities, vainly seeking jobs that do not exist. Whether they are called favelas, ranches, bustees, barriadas or bidonvilles, there is a tragic sameness about these...