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...American of Jewish descent, I am disgusted by Israel's acts of the past five months. The Israelis may not think they have become the oppressor, but if it looks, walks and quacks like a duck and has feathers, well...
Telephones at intervals throughout the passageways allow the workers to make quick contact with the Science Center monitoring operation, and a hotline provides immediate communication with Cambridge Steam should the steam need to be shut off during an emergency. One might expect that only necessity would prompt a descent into Harvard's bowels. The tunnels are fairly small, approximately eight feet square on average, and crowded with pipes. The heat can be sweltering, ordinarily about 100*F but rising above 120* in the dead of winter when all steam lines are in use Damp stains and sporadic graffiti blotch...
...four, all independent-minded women of Irish descent who wear civilian clothes and have unquestionably been somewhat at odds with the parish's predominantly French Canadian clergy, decided to fight. "I won't quietly fold my tent and go away," snapped Sister Catherine. Under the contracts that they had signed along with the lay teachers, the nuns insisted, they were entitled to an explanation of the charges and a public hearing before the parish school board...
...that marked his installation as archbishop. Already one of U.S. Roman Catholicism's handful of most important leaders, Bernardin (pronounced Burr-nuh-deen) is taking charge of the nation's largest archdiocese. In time he will be named a Cardinal, the first in the U.S. of Italian descent...
...House Speaker Tip O'Neill instructing the congressional delegation, whose trip he had routinely authorized, to refrain from making statements in his name. It was only the beginning of the Americans' troubles. Representatives Nick Rahall of West Virginia and Mary Rose Oakar of Ohio, both of Lebanese descent and both persistent critics of Israel, told the press that the damage they had seen in Tyre and Sidon was the worst that they had ever observed in any war area, only to have to admit they had never seen any other war areas. The group proved to be totally...