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Stephen H. Kaplan '69, HUC president, said the new ruling was "an indication of the role students can play in the decision-making process." He said the Committee on Houses previously acted alone on the matter because of a breakdown in student-faculty communications...
...government's revenue from taxes is about $13 million. A breakdown of the budget would probably show 80 per cent going into salaries, and 20 per cent going to the foreign bank accounts of high Haitian officials. Duvalier did not invent the system, but he has perfected...
...potential of magic and mystery, Hunter destroys the narrative form, that apple-pie order march of elements we all know and love--elements like time, cause and effect, motivation (spell it out, son), resolution. Yes, they all break down. (Like the junkyard, like Anastasia--you've got it now, BREAKDOWN is the theme.) The threads of plot tempt you to join a surrealistic scavenger hunt. Don't. Don't fumble about for a catenary of explanation and logistic. You're likely to miss the vision, and the vision is Anastasia Vote...
...came to the States, when I was ten. Here he was only qualified to be a working class man, not knowing any English. He had a variety of working class jobs, unhappy with most of them. Then we had a little brother dying. My father had a nervous breakdown. It was a combination of things. He was being embarrassed by those jobs. Back in Italy he had been one of the town's big politicos...
...IMPORTANT when my father got a nervous breakdown because then my family was split up. My mother was sick too and since we were a nice family, in most ways, we immediately found foster parents for the six kids. I lived in a lower middle class Italian-American family, very nice people. Three years preceding this I had become sort of a bookworm. So I get to this family and they expected me, since I was eldest, to lead the house and to be energetic. I was 13, just about 14. They expected more independence from me and I sorta...