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Thus, the Palestinian issue remains alive and important. There are Palestinians all over the world with large communities in several Arab countries, Israeli-occupied territories, and in Israel proper behind the so-called green line. They are not about to disappear and abandon their sense of national identity and their longing for a homeland. They will continue to struggle in order to win the right to self-determination. The main spokesman for this nationalist drive is the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), recognized by nearly every nation in the world as the legitimate representative of the Palestinian people...
...work was drastically revised by the mature Brahms, and despite its early opus number, its introspective intensity makes it an extraordinarily difficult work to interpret. But Chang, Kogan, and Ma (upon whom the trio now seems to be less visibly dependent for direction whirled through the work with abandon and brilliance. If anything, the second movement scherzo crept to the edge of brittleness; yet the sustained, almost religious adagio which followed was lyrically breathtaking...
...abandon the facile descriptions and labels for these minority students and ask, "Who are they really?" If we trim down that generality and ask, "Who are these students?" then we may get somewhere. Let us specify at once what they are not. They are not those students whose race, culture, value systems, etc. do figure predominantly in the much discussed "sample." Many of them, though not all, line up along the top edges of the curves used to design national standardized tests. We often hear the claim that they are not numerous enough to constitute a control group, and thus...
...very hard to bring themselves up in the world, and to express the enormous gratitude they must feel. But somewhere in the sixties, things began to change. Universities in general were in upheaval, and Black students in particular were dissatisfied and rebellious. Somewhere along the line, minority students had abandoned their trust in their statistical value, and when they did, they found themselves in a kind of descriptional twilight zone. Many rejected the pat definitions applied to them by admissions offices and sociologists, but few actually articulated the essence of their own identity. Slowly and often painfully they began...
Peter Sideris, a barber at a Brattle St. barber shop, said yesterday, "People think they will get chopped up by oldtimers, so men have started to abandon traditional barber shops...