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Director Taylor Hackford need not have resolved the paradox of loyalty, honor and duty channelled into the overall profession of maiming and mangling, but in a movie with so much introspection afoot, it seems strange that not a single character broods about the fundamental premise of the military...
Among students, plans are afoot in the Coalition for Student Aid (CSA) to-send Bok a letter protesting his stance and "trying to get him to reaffirm his commitment to higher education for all who need it," says Susan Cronin '84, who conceived the project...
...varicose veins, shin splints, sagging breasts, side stitches and hernias-the traditional rewards of running. Runners who speak of their exquisite pains (and many runners speak of nothing else) say the compensations are, and ought to be, ethereal: surges of joy, increased selfesteem, improved sex lives. But commercialism is afoot and mercenaries are gaining. The Boston Marathon is about to turn...
Some other such moves are afoot. The President last week unveiled his plan to create over the next three years up to 75 "enterprise zones" in blighted areas. The idea is to revitalize decaying neighborhoods by offering generous tax breaks to employers who set up shop there and hire disadvantaged residents. Dropped from this job-stimulus proposal was an early suggestion that employers in these zones might be allowed to pay subminimum wages and gain exemption from health and safety regulations, two ideas that are favored by some conservatives but might have cost support in Congress...
...halfheartedly, bowing to sense of duty rather than conviction; new austerities left voters impatient with free-spending liberal promises; Chappaquiddick would not go away; the hostages in Iran kept Carter safely off the hustings and out of Teddy's range. But Wills suspected that something more metaphysical was afoot. The Senator was not undone by ineptitude and adverse circumstances; his last name, with all that it had come to symbolize, fated him to fail...