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Harry R. Lewis '68, McKay Professor of Computer Science, agreed with the idea of custom-made questionnaires, adding that the quality of reading for computer science courses was not important, and should not be a part of an objective evaluation...
...zawya. In the Afar language, that means the house of the dead. Although it is not long after dawn, 26 bodies have already been wrapped in filthy burlap shrouds on the earthen floor. The air is sickly sweet with the smell of decay. Inside, in accordance with Muslim custom, Hussein Yussuf is tenderly washing the shriveled body of a three-year-old boy. "This is the first water this child has had for a long, long time," says the 60-year-old man. In the past four weeks, Yussuf, known as Jenaza-atabi (Cleaner of the dead), has washed...
...shipping the product to West Germany, say. They sell the material to another exporter--perhaps it goes to Sweden instead--and they send it to the Soviet Union," explains Prime's Ganaghan. It was this kind of smuggling ring that made headlines earlier this fall when Swedish and U.S. Customs intercepted a shipment of Digital VAX computers bound originally for West Germany but headed instead to a destination in the Soviet Bloc. VAX computers have potential military applications, according to the Defense Department. As a result of the bust, a part of the Custom Service's counter-intelligence Operation EXODUS...
...support in such Democratic strongholds as Chicago, New York City and, yes, even his home state of Minnesota. Like Reagan, he reached back to the battle-tested traditions of his own political experience, reveling most notably in the torchlight parade through downtown Chicago that has been an election-year custom for Democrats since 1948. Flanked by the leaders of the city's two feuding factions, Mayor Harold Washington and Alderman Edward Vrdolyak, Mondale basked in the protective glow of oldtime ward politics. Mondale's enthusiasm was matched by that of the 50,000 onlookers...
Martin was hardly less appalled to hear that there are now etiquette camps where children learn practices like kissing hands. "That is just a perversion of the idea of etiquette," says Martin. "Hand kissing is not an American custom. It's incredibly pretentious for Americans to do it, and for toddlers to do it is unspeakable. I mean, this is just disgusting. These etiquette schools were done solely to teach snobbery, which is against everything I believe...