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Petitions at Harvard and Radcliffe garnering as many as 300 signatures, which Abrams says were not solicited by the newspaper, urged the Lampoon to abandon its attempt to retrieve the ibis “from the Russian people and the University of Moscow,” according to reports in The Crimson...
...American media consultant sat casually among a team of Chinese producers in the control room critiquing the show. "I thought maybe I was a dope to go for two anchors," Terenzio observes, "but I wanted to build a bit of chemistry." When news presenters Chris Gelken and Jacqueline Chan abandon their scripts to banter amiably about the stock market, he's pleased that the chemistry appears to be working. "This," he says, "is really good television...
...results. The West has exported its diseases as well its technology. Our traditional diet and lifestyle used to keep us healthy, but junk food and irregular hours have made us prone to heart disease. Let us go back to a way of living based on healthy values and abandon maddening pursuits. Otherwise, a time may come when it will be hard to distinguish between home and hospital. Arvind K. Pandey Allahabad, India...
Hearing a horn in the distance, the men abandon their graham-cracker snacks and scurry off to man the cameras. A hush falls over the fans as a trash train, hauling a wall of Dumpsters to New York City, rumbles by. Almeida smiles and afterward offers his best defense yet: "I could find better things to do. It's just that, uh, I'm doing this...
...shouldn't forget that Abdel Aziz Rantisi, the Hamas leader who was killed in an Israeli missile attack [April 26], was a pediatrician. Pediatricians specialize in maintaining children's health and growth. They should have an underlying respect for human life. Where did Rantisi go wrong? When did he abandon nurturing life and turn to cultivating hatred among adolescent Palestinians, openly applauding young men for blowing themselves--along with the innocents around them--to bits? A destructive influence is now gone from the Palestinian fabric. LUCY RUBIN Pretoria...