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...exchange between two Harvard students, one who heads the "Sisyphus Youth League," Thomas Careen, and the other who heads the Conservative Club, Sy Kahane. Menn was really referring to the SYL's Thomas N. Crean, and right-wing Iranian prince Saied Kashani. He attempted to hide his politics behind crude fiction. The central point was that communist defense of the Soviet Union against U.S. imperialism can be equated with fascism (represented by Israeli fascist Meir Kahane...
...have reflected on your idea of brilliance. By becoming an obscene warped but unique and genuine caricature of the left, I expect you will be able to swing a few more centrists to your crude rightist sect...socialists, too, will run to the center or even further in the shadow of your pseudo-Stalinism...
...permanent fixtures. Instead, surgeons are beginning to implant them as emergency stopgap measures. This change of emphasis became apparent at a meeting in Washington last month attended by most of the world's leading implant surgeons. Several felt that the artificial heart, in its current form, is simply too crude and too risky to be widely used on a long-term basis. Tucson Surgeon Jack Copeland, who helped pioneer the use of an artificial heart as a temporary measure, judged the Jarvik-7 "a monstrous thing that does awful things to people." The longer it remains in a patient...
...important battles of Family and Friends are fought over love, and in this arena Brookner is shrewd enough to know that the Geneva convention does not apply. "The rules are really crude," she said in a recent issue of the trade magazine Publishers Weekly. "The rules are: Who dares, wins. This is bad news for people who don't dare and who see others win. That's the central problem, I think. I think it's the matter nobody gets completely right." Not in life, perhaps; but this art historian who dared write novels has found the solution in literature...
...principal impetus for the new policy was a 1983-84 survey of women at Harvard. The University-sponsored study indicated that more than one-third of the women on campus had felt some kind of sexual harassment--ranging from inappropriate comments and crude jokes to attempted or actual rape...