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Students within the department said that they are also bothered by the University's attitude toward Afro-American Studies. Louis E. Bird '80, an Afro-American Studies concentrator, said last week, "The reason that Afro is on the brink is that the University sees Afro as a thorn in its side...
...learned not to give himself to uncertain plans, he may have come to the knowledge that a literary career was possible ... Ultimately, the Congo episode, which became so momentous in his later work, may have been no more than the kind of defeat which brought him to the brink of existence, his own rather than that of civilization. At that edge, where he had to stare into the abyss, he saw himself drowning, and the question for him was whether he was worth saving...
Political observers said the new government would not receive automatic approval but both houses will probably give Bakhtiar the vote of confidence he needs to begin carrying out a program aimed at pulling Iran from the brink of economic collapse...
Police also believe that an employee may have tipped off the robbers to Lufthansa's treasure. Apparently it was there by a fluke. The money was scheduled to be transferred from Kennedy into Manhattan on the Friday before the heist, but when a Brink's truck arrived to take the money to Chase Manhattan, the Lufthansa foreman was too busy directing another shipment to open the vault. Some investigators think that there may have been a conspiracy to keep the money at the facility over the weekend...
...waning decade has remained elusive, unfocused, a patchwork of dramatics awaiting a drama. Here on the brink of the '80s, it would still be risky to guess what people will mean when they speak of the '70s ten years from now. Why have these times seemed so indefinite...