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Patrons of the long-absent Square hangout One Potato, Two Potato will once again be sipping their drinks and eating their burgers at the familiar Mass. Ave. spot come summertime...
...State Senate today will begin debating a bill which would require Massachusetts elementary, secondary and postsecondary schools to offer make-up exams to students absent because of religious holidays...
...stocky, dignified Alfonsin cited the foreign-debt issue as "one of the biggest differences between our two countries" and told Reagan that overpowering economic problems "conspire against democratic systems." Nonetheless, Alfonsin noted that in conversations with U.S. leaders, "the subject of Nicaragua and Central America will not be absent." He added, in words similar to those he used two days later at a meeting with TIME editors (see box), "I am convinced that it is through dialogue that we will be able to reach peace...
...aging leaders, men whose careers spanned most of their nation's history, had handed over power to someone from the younger generation, an event as monumental in its way as the death of Stalin in 1953. The Kremlin no longer could be viewed as the domain of ailing and absent rulers; its boss was now a man of vigor who might well lead the Soviet Union into the 21st century...
...ABSENT FROM BOSKER argument is any conception of the university as a socially strategic in stitution, or of education as a collective good. Contrary to the belief of many currently in power in Washington, taxpayers aren't underwriting some four-year frolic, but investing in the country's future. Hackneved as the human capital argument is, an educated citizenry is the key to economic growth and national prosperity, goals which conservatives supposedly value dearly. It's not that individuals needs taxpayers money for their own private benefits It's that the country needs educated individuals for the public good...