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Before the club can hope to stop the petty infighting, it will have to revamp its methods of persuading Boston-area voters that the Democratic Party holds the answer to their problems. Club members would no longer be able to limit themselves to quadrennial Presidential campaigns. If the club is to stay together, its members will need to take a more active role in state and local politics. While they have preoccupied themselves with their own squabbling, a number of important issues have passed them by--from the drinking age to the construction of the Red Line, each of which...
Hundreds of Boston-area students have been lobbying this week for a hike of only one year in the drinking age. Some of their organizers blame the House vote on Tuesday to raise the drinking age gradually to 21 in part on the students' lower turnout that day than on Monday. About 700 young people lobbied in the Senate Thursday...
...Another Boston-area intellectual who knows and admires the new Pope is Anna? Teresa Tymieniecka, a fellow Pole who heads the Institute for Advanced Phenomenological Research. Wojtyla is an expert in phenomenology, a theory of knowledge that bases scientific objectivity upon the unique nature of subjective human perception. He has written a major work on it, Person and Act (1969), which Tymieniecka is translating into English. Summarizing the Pope's complex thought, she says: "He stresses the irreducible value of the human person. He finds a spiritual dimension in human interaction, and that leads him to a profoundly humanistic conception...
...many good boys die over there," he says, fingering a pack of the cigarettes he still buys tax-free from a Boston-area military commissary. The clock in the Lowell House Superintendent's Office reads 8:30. Four hours...
Amid revelations that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) covertly funded a series of drug experiments on Boston-area college students in the '50s and early '60s, Harvard released a document showing that a Medical School professor received $30,000 in CIA money for a series of experiments on the "hypnotizability" of individuals. No drugs were involved, and the tests shows hypnosis to be "a very poor method for mind-control," Dr. Martin T. Orne '48 said after the research was revealed this year...