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...junta leaders, and in all public actions, he must be careful not to offend Argentina, or weaken his new bonds with Britain, or ignore the diplomatic sensitivities of neighboring Chile. That country, which is also heavily Catholic, has its own border dispute with Argentina over ownership of the Beagle Channel islands, an area that is, if possible, even more remote than the Falklands. According to church sources, a settlement proposed by a Vatican mediator has been accepted by the government of Chile, but not by that of Argentina. The Galtieri government's refusal had prompted John Paul to spurn...
Concurrently, economic pressure have encouraged young people around the nation to channel their career interests during years that were supposed to be reserved for "liberal arts" education. Harvard's ostensible answer to that squeeze produces only faceless programs like the Core Curriculum. On a personal travel, the University has done nothing to counteract student's increasing introspection, which manifests itself in cutthroat pre-professionalism and general political apathy of the past several years. By example, Harvard has encouraged selfishness...
...shaping their personal experiences here. Even the needless pain that some of us endured as the result of too much begin neglect also binds us together. No one, not one person who will don cap and gown tomorrow, is graduating from this University naive. Our task now is to channel that savvy in such a way as to avoid the temptation of haughtiness, bitterness, or cynicism. In 1982 as in 1949, 1968 and probably 1994, a Harvard degree is still as much of a responsibility as an achievement...
...shale-oil production will be refined into jet fuel, and 70% will be made into diesel. The Government has agreed to pay $42.50 per bbl. of the product, plus automatic increases that will be tied to inflation, no matter what happens to world crude oil prices. This would channel up to $400 million to Union in price guarantees during the first seven years of the contract, not far from the $550 million it will have spent on the project...
...comforting, though, that Vinogradov has another invitation in mind, although there is no channel through which to send it. "My dream is that Balanchine would come back to Leningrad and do something with us," he says. "If only that were in the stars. Balanchine is one of the gods. After Petipa he is No. 2-among living choreographers, No. 1." If that assessment of the great classicists reflects Vinogradov's priorities, the Kirov is in safe hands. -By Martha Duffy