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Seizing on a story with, so to speak, grass-roots appeal, some metropolitan newspapers and broadcasters devoted more space and time to the cleanup issue last week, than they did to the terrorist attack at the Iraqi embassy in Paris or anything going on in Congress. The New York Post banner headlined a front-page story, CITY DOG OWNERS DOING THEIR DUTY. The Daily News ran daily features on "poopetrators," concluding in one headline, ON THE FIRST DOG DAY MORNING, CRIME IS DROPPING. The New York Times editorialized that it was "one of those delicate moments of social experiment when...
Today, the Foreign Legion has a total strength of 8,000 men. It is an elite strike force whose members have been trained for counterterror and commando-type operations. The Second Parachute Regiment, for example, which recaptured Kolwezi, is expert in night combat, alpine warfare, urban cleanup operations, amphibious landings, demolition and sabotage. The average age of recruits: 22. Virtually all the legion's officers are French. Technically, French nationals are forbidden to enlist in the legion, but many do, pretending to be Belgians, Swiss or Canadians. Although the new legion tries hard to exclude professional thugs and officially...
...mobilization meetings. Newspapers all over the country were flooded with offers of money and goods for Brittany's hard-hit fishermen; a radio station collected everything from pitchforks to rubber boots. A folk music group offered the earnings from a special new recording about the spill for the cleanup. Thousands of young people seized the catastrophe for political protest, shouting antinuclear-power slogans during a march in the port city of Brest (example: "Oil-covered today, radioactive tomorrow...
Regardless of whether it was safe or legal for any members of the Harvard community to return to normal activities, more consideration should have been given to the impact this decision would have on the cleanup effort in Cambridge and on the provision of essential services to Cambridge residents. It is disillusioning to realize that part of Harvard's uniqueness consists of its ability to discount the reality of these concerns...
...writing a thesis, you become a mindless shut-in, a recluse, a pariah. Your only contact with the outside world is whatever wafts in on the breeze through the sixth-floor windows in Mather House (last week, that meant 30 inches of snow, and I had quite a cleanup problem) and, needless to say, the radio. Well I've now closed my window until the winter is officially over, and I've given up on the radio. (Last night, WBCN, the one station you're still supposed to think is OK around here, devoted an entire hour to this really...