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Murphy will be working with the Boston Food Bank and the Adopt-a-Nursing-Home Program. "Harvard is an intense forum for liberal discussion, but City Year is finally a chance to turn words into action while we're here," he says...
Above all, try to keep some pride. Don't blame yourself for the break-up. Instead of analyzing every fault, think of your good qualities. Adopt the attitude that your ex is making a big mistake. The singer of the Young Rascals' "I Ain't Gonna Eat Out My Heart Anymore" has the right idea: "Baby, you just lost the best thing you ever...
Welcome to the April rush. Across the country last week, colleges were scrambling to land academic superstars. The reason for their push to recruit: with the baby boom busted, enrollments have been on a slow but steady slide since 1980. This has prompted even the fussiest schools to adopt glitzy new marketing gimmicks for wooing top prospects. "Everybody's hustling," says Robert Thornton, director of admissions at New College in Florida. Last week Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, N.Y., held an open house featuring a student play and poetry readings to emphasize the school's strength in the arts. Colgate...
There was nothing to directly link the raid on the Sea Trader to Reagan's comments or to an earlier report that the United States was preparing to adopt a new get-tough policy following last week's skirmishes between Iran and the U.S. Navy. But the attack, the first since two ships were hit Tuesday in the aftermath of a major U.S.-Iranian clash the day before, suggested Iran was determined to show its ability to carry out shipping raids despite its losses...
...least two dozen people were arrested during the first week, but the number is likely to grow. A test program at the San Ysidro border crossing near San Diego has resulted in more than 1,000 arrests since it began in December 1986. The national program will adopt the San Diego approach, in which suspects are charged with both illegal importation of drugs, a felony, and simple possession, a misdemeanor. Most are then offered a deal: if they plead guilty to the misdemeanor, the Government will drop the felony count and the magistrate will grant deferred prosecution, which means that...