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...been picking off key members of the underground. Days before the papal visit, security police rounded up ten Solidarity workers in Cracow; most had been involved in running illegal presses. Some church leaders have even begun to question whether it would not be better to close the Solidarity chapter in Poland's history and move on. Says Father Piasecki: "The underground? Who are they? What is their program? How do they plan to carry it out? You cannot talk to a partner who is not visible...
Liza Lopez, 16, is president of the 225-member City Girls Rockin' with Menudo fan club chapter in New York. Hers is one of several dozen groups in the city and 700 in the world. "They send you rules for a fan club," Lopez says. "You must visit hospitals and churches. There must be no gossip or fighting among the girls...
What they have seen is not allegations of government wrongdoing, but a comprehensive look at one of Harvard's fastest growing operations. From the detailed chronology in the early "Calendar" chapter to the pithy biographical sketches in the final "Faculty" section, a clear picture emerges of this annual eight-week sweatshop...
Gone are the days, however, when Frenchman could look at his watch and know that in every school in the country, children would be studying a particular chapter of a particular book. Despite the instructions issued by the Ministry of Education, teaching varies widely from classroom to classroom throughout the country. Typical is the diversity within the Ecole Annexe de l'Ecole Normale des Instituteurs de Paris, a public primary school: children in one second-level class are made to sit up straight and arduously copy lessons from the blackboard; in another, they are allowed to mill around...
Between women's lib and gay lib, the sexual twists at the modern office can get grotesque. Mazzei devotes a chapter to "Women at Work" and another to "When Cupid Gets Stupid." Among his guidelines: do not compliment women for wearing appropriate business dress; be sure to tell your employer if you are bringing a gay lover to a formal company occasion. Mazzei offers a couple of pages of suggestions on the issue of a kiss on the cheek, warning that it can often end up with "a clash of eyeglass frames and a lot of confusion." When conducting...