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With all the euphoria over the opening of Loker Commons, the University-sponsored publicity onslaught and the advent of "Crimson Cash," I thought it might be nice for the student population to know some of the unmentioned consequences of Loker Commons...
Horwitz said the advent of the computer systems will permit faster access to cases and the ability to call up or highlight on-screen text...
...should be remembered that Yasser Arafat was catapulted into the international spotlight even before the advent of his brainchild, the "Intifada." Scarcely five years after the adoption of the Camp David Accords, the first honest effort at Middle East peace, this terrorist-turned-Harvard lecturer was coordinating the most effective, bloody exercises in civilian warfare since the end of the Second World...
They came because Edward Hopper's paintings are as true today, or perhaps truer, than when he set his brush to them. He is a painter of nostalgia for an America that was lost with the advent of cars, automation and urbanization. He is a painter of solitude for a country that has become increasingly atomized, where the California freeway lanes for carpoolers are often empty for hours at a time. He is a painter of loneliness for a country that has become increasingly lonely, where people search for cyberlove rather than knocking on a neighbor's door...
...Croats and the Muslims. An equitable partition mutually agreed upon is the only answer. Stop the bombing. Call for an all-parties cease-fire. Lift the crippling economic sanctions on Serbia. And let mediators untainted by bloody hands impartially broker a just partition. (THE REV.) THOMAS LEE BASICH Advent Lutheran Church St. Paul, Minnesota...