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...with a small cache of supplies and the modest remains of his savings account, and rolled out of his Columbia, Mo., home in search of the forgotten land. Life's desperate moments are terrifying but also exhilarating, for they open up the vast possibilities of reckless abandon. Jobless, wifeless, and 38 years old--"an age that carries its own madness and futility"--Least Heat Moon "took to the open road in search of places where change did not mean ruin and where time and men and deeds connected...
...this doesn't mean that Rush should abandon its efforts in the area of sexual harassment or relegate women's studies at Harvard/Radcliffe to the back seat. These are crucial issues and to forget that would be regressing. The efforts which are currently being made must be continued and increased. But with four or five active members only a finite amount of work can be done. With 2 500 undergraduate women, RUS needs at least 25 and hopefully as many as 50 representatives which would allow us not only to continue in those areas in which we are currently working...
Historically important works of art have always traveled, and many have been lost to history in the process. But it is time to abandon the primitive reasons for sending them round the world-political display, promotion, show biz-and move them only if their presence in another country is likely to make a real difference to historical understanding...
...commission which has a clear moral, if not legal, authority. Friday, Prime Minister Menachem Begin's cabinet voted to do just that, and Sharon reportedly resigned from his defense post. The report does not make explicit whether Sharon and a few others must leave the government altogether or simply abandon the posts they now hold. The former course seems wisest. Should they remain in positions of power, these men will represent the failure of the system to cleanse itself, indeed to carry out the imperatives of democracy. Shatila and Sabra are forever a part of Israel's past. But tomorrow...
...raining the financial aid budget by 9.9 percent, Harvard will continue to admit students without regard to financial need, University officials announced. Several colleges have been forced to abandon aid-blind admissions policies in the past two years because of declining federal funds available to college students...