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...these last few weeks of the academic year, we Jews and Blacks will meet each other halfway in confronting the ugliness that has gripped our community. Only through direct Black-Jewish dialogue will we be able to understand each other's concerns and move forward in addressing them. Brace Diker '84 David Sultan...
With 169 delegates at stake, the Democrats brace for High Noon...
When the royal hunt of Mme. de Maintenon was turned into a piece of popular fiction in The King's Way (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; 497 pages; $15.95), it reigned for 80 weeks on France's bestseller list. Françoise Chandernagor, 38, a French judge, has been more fortunate than most first novelists in the wealth of sources available for her imaginative reconstruction. She has drawn from the writings of two of France's great literary stylists and keenest chroniclers of the age, Mme. de Sévigné and the Due de Saint-Simon, as well...
...only emphasizes that four years ago, Michela Figini of Switzerland, who won the gold in the downhill last week, was 13 years old. For Americans, nothing showed the passage of time more than the news that the stalwart Cindy Nelson, 28, competing in her third Olympics with a brace on her damaged right leg, had not even entered the punishing downhill. In the G.S. she had scraped to 18th place, and it seemed likely that her career was over...
...argument is the strongest one left in their arsenal. But the arsenal is dwindling. Even those who still expect the ultimate defeat of capital punishment are worried. "The Immediate future is grim," says the Rev. Joe Ingle, who leads a Southern prison-reform group. "We've got to brace ourselves for losing some folks. It's like being in a war." One loss came just three days after the court's proportionality decision. In Florida, Anthony Antone, 66, convicted of arranging the contract killing of an organized-crime investigator, was electrocuted, the twelfth man to die since...