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...knew Harvard would be tough, but I didn't think it would be this tough," Maher says. "In general, I want to adjust to Harvard and being away from home. I'm looking forward to the day that I can say that I really want to be here. My priorities are definitely academic, but basketball has always been important to me and always will be. I know I'll find the balance I need to continue in both...
...haven't done so yet, adjust immediately to College Standard Time, where all engagements are pushed back two hours and an 8 o'clock section meets after dinner, not after breakfast...
...configurations of slave days -- the Government functioning as benevolent slave master, dispenser of all things. Many blacks were trapped in ghettos as surely and hopelessly as slaves on plantations. Perhaps civil rights organizations, designed to battle discrimination and hardening over the years into institutional mind-sets, could not adjust to new realities and needs after the structure of Jim Crow had been torn down. At worst, the Great Society turned the leaders into petitioners, even while thousands upon thousands of working-class blacks toiled in the hardest, dirtiest jobs rather than accept welfare...
...political landscape. No longer were questions of South Africa's future hung up on the issue of Mandela's release. Now, all parties could begin the still more difficult task of establishing a new political system. For Mandela, shoved in front of international cameras before his eyes could even adjust to the glare of a world he has not seen since 1962, the challenge will be to unite the fractious and sometimes violent elements of the black community beneath a common banner. For De Klerk, the no less daunting challenge will be to face down assaults from the white community...
True enough. But as Gorbachev prepared for this week's meeting of the 249- member Central Committee, there were signs that he had finally decided to adjust -- though not jettison -- the two hats he wears: one as General Secretary of the Communist Party, the other as President of the Supreme Soviet, the country's parliament. Closeted with his aides for several days at his dacha on the outskirts of Moscow two weeks ago, Gorbachev drafted a proposal that would reduce the party's role in government decision making and significantly enhance his powers as head of the Supreme Soviet...