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...seemingly minor events in the book: weddings, births, the lighting of the Sabbath candles. Here, it's the little things that count. Writing about a century best defined by the word mass--mass, culture, mass movements, mass destruction--Potok has lived up to the novelist's task and reaffirmed, amidst all the tragedy, the dignity of an individual life...
THERE COMES A TIME when a we need a certain call, a seductive vet calculated earnestness amidst the normal audible drivel of AM car radios that can only be the product of supposedly good intentions meeting high-powered marketing...
Unless urgent action is taken, it's only a matter of time before the debt bomb explodes. The seriousness of the situation is often lost amidst the economic jargon. Technical disputes abound over the true extent of the problem, but almost everyone agrees that, despite phony supply-side arguments to the contrary, an increasing national debt fuels both high interest rates and an overvalued dollar. Aside from the fact that mortgage financing and business investments remain prohibitively expensive and will exert an increasing drag on the current recovery, high rates force the government to devote more and more taxpayer money...
...Amidst the lingering aroma of a lasagna dinner, the penetrating voice of Margery A. Hellmold '83 echoes through the Lowell House dining hall. Lowell's High Table platform, ordinarily a place reserved for lunchtime banter and dinner study groups, has been cleared of its mundance furniture and transformed into a stage. Here, the cast for the 43rd production of the Lowell House Opera rehearses for its opening tonight...
...Amidst all the talk of this year's Crimson exploits, it's easy to forget that last year's Harvard squad hit an NCAA record 82.2 percent of its free throws...