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...administration says it is trying to change that perception with the new cluster dormitory groups, which it hopes will bring students closer together and make them more interested in the actions of their leaders. "Right now, dorms are just places to sleep, like hotels. We hope that [clustering] will give students the facilities to develop programs that will bring more of them together," said the Committee on Undergraduate Life that first developed the housing proposal...
Humes argued that today diseases of this type, including both the physiological symptoms associated with chronic neuromuscular tension (such as headache, backache, insomnia, constipation, asthma, and so on), and the cluster of cognitive and emotional distortions which come under the general heading of anxiety-neurosis, are so widespread that the medical profession should stipulate the existence of an epidemic. He urged the direction of research attention to the use of cannabis as a specific remedy...
Considering the occasion, the 200 people gathered around the enormous bronze bust in London's sprawling Highgate Cemetery formed a pitifully small cluster. Nor did the perfunctory graveside eulogies give the full measure of the man they were meant to honor. Perhaps no ceremony could truly convey the sheer magnitude of the political and social upheaval Karl Marx's writings have wrought around the world. Still, few disciples of the German theoretician of Communism seemed to know last week just how to observe the 100th anniversary of his death...
...committed specialists. It brings together work that, in an ordinary lifetime, one could not otherwise see in the same context. In short, there is a real reason for its existence that justifies the expense and risk of bringing the work around the world. Only in recent years, with a cluster of major exhibitions devoted to the 17th century-"France in the Golden Age" at the Met, Claude Lorrain at the National Gallery, Ruisdael at the Fogg, and a few others-have Americans been able to clear their minds of prejudices in favor of the quattrocento and see what pleasure...
...Wrath, the Dies Irae is near, and it is always near, then it is our duty to survive." Merely to survive is not enough; the risky quest to meet the near-legendary American soldiers is an opportunity to infuse a sense of adventure and myth into a cluster of lives grown grey and sodden under years of Fascist rule. So they make their way through the foothills, while the partisans and the straggling black shirted Fascists (looking like an army of scarecrows) wage skirmishes around them...