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...Harvard Ph.D. I am leaving because I hope to find a better way of learning and teaching and maybe even of living. In the end, I am leaving because I am tired of being told not to be so idealistic about my education. Somebody once said: "the call to abandon illusions about our condition is a call to abandon a condition which requires illusions." Spare...
When he finally decided last month to abandon coyness, Goldberg immediately attracted the support of party organization chiefs, who want a winner. Just as promptly, Goldberg was tagged as the boss-dominated candidate. Though the accusation is routinely made in many campaigns, the bossism bogy rankled Goldberg. As soon as the bosses had got their followers to designate Goldberg at the convention, he announced that he favored an open primary. "We will all be equal before the voters," he declared. "I don't want any advantage. I don't need any advantage. I have therefore decided...
...simultaneously the story of an affair between a French film actress (Annie Girardot) and a composer (Jean-Paul Belmondo) and a testament to Director Claude Lelouch's passion for the U.S. The whole country becomes a vast film set through which Lelouch moves his actors with the abandon of an intoxicated tourist...
Girls with low lottery numbers who want to move to Harvard will have to abandon friends with high numbers. In past years, roommates were allowed to average their numbers together to establish their ranking...
...lifeboats saw smoke belch from the Eagle's stack, and the freighter took off at its top speed of about 19 knots. Some thought it had to be a bad joke. Only a few surmised the real truth: the Columbia Eagle had been taken over by mutineers; the abandon-ship signal had been a ruse...