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Speaking at MIT on Oct. 26, President Obama besought MIT students and students at colleges all across America to tackle the “challenge of their generation” by pursuing research in alternative fuel sources and technologies and other methods of combating climate change and obtaining independence from foreign sources of oil. We appreciate the president’s calling upon young people to engage the critical issue of energy independence and hope that students at MIT and other universities answer this call. We also endorse the current effort on Capitol Hill to pass climate-change legislation. However...
...Having besought Judge Raulston to quash the indictment brought against Scopes lest it ignite a conflagration of bigotry in the land, and because the act under which it was brought was unconstitutional (TIME, July 20), Lawyer Darrow, shambling, leonin counsel for the defense, next besought His Honor to dispense with, as being prejudicial, the long prayers (by visiting and local Fundamentalist clerics) with which the sessions were being opened. Hot words from the prosecution. Hotter words. In the course of this debate, Attorney General A. T. Stewart snapped at defense-counsel Arthur Garneld Hays: "Willyoupleasekeepyourmouthshut...
...that will build the Saturn, a new small car designed by General Motors to be competitive with Japanese imports. The plant, expected to roll out its first models in 1988, will employ 6,000. So far, 24 Governors, along with dozens of city officials and local business groups, have besought GM to award them the plant. Last week, for example, New York's Governor Mario Cuomo made a personal pilgrimage to GM's Technical Center in Warren, Mich., to present company officials with one of his state's bright orange-and-blue license plates, bearing the name SATURN...
...with a convoluted song Porter wrote for the occasion: "Oft in the nightfall/ I think I might fall/ Down from my perilous height; Deep in the heart of me,/ Always a part of me,/ Quivering, shivering light." Coward responded with Nina who "declined to begin the Beguine/ Though they besought her to/ And in language profane and obscene/ She cursed the man who taught her to,/ She cursed Cole Porter...
Sadat acknowledged that he had "broken all traditions known to warring states" by visiting Israel, and he loftily forgave "all those who greeted my decision with astonishment or called it a verbal maneuver for public consumption." In an emotional conclusion directed to "the people of Israel," Sadat besought them to "teach your children that what has passed is the end of suffering and what will come is a new life." Said former Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban, an Arab linguist, when Sadat had finished: "The speech itself was predictable. I could have written it myself. But the Middle East...