Word: directing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...must overcome, the actors are generally good, and at times even humorous. Despite their efforts, however, this experiment in music and drama fails to achieve a synthesis; if anything, it takes on enough affectations to raise the hackles of the most indulgent of theatre-goers. Enough said--let us direct out attention and our gaze towards the truly memorable element in the production: the poster for the CIVIL WarS on the back wall...
...families earn less than $32,500 per year, without any other regard for financial need. For families with more than one student in college or with several dependents, the arbitrary limit is insensitive and unjust. Further, funds from Pell Grants, College Work Study, Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants, and National Direct Student Loans could be restricts, to families that earn less than $25,000. Under these limits, one million fewer American students would be eligible for GSL while 800,000 fewer would receive Pell Grants. All of these programs should continue to be administered on the basis of need, rather than...
Harvard students in junior tutorials are eligible for summer research grants for direct observation of politics and governmental processes in the United States. The grant is available to students in any concentration for work leading to a senior honors thesis or comparable project. Deadline March...
...prohibits direct aid to Laos other than for humanitarian purposes. Laos is a tiny, isolated country of nearly 4 million where the annual per capita income is about $100. At the U.S. embassy in Vientiane, Charge d'Affaires Theresa A. Tull points out that the U.S. recently donated 5,000 tons of rice to Laos to help it survive a bad harvest. But Tull is firm when asked if the U.S. plans to open financial doors for Laos on the basis of the one crash-site excavation. "We need more than a single event," she says. "We need a sustained...
...marathon meetings with farm-state Senators of both parties and with Agriculture Secretary John Block, Dole worked out a compromise: Block, with President Reagan's approval, would sign a letter pledging the Administration to make "adequate" direct loans (amount unspecified) through the Farmers < Home Administration and also to ease the terms under which the Government will guarantee repayment of $650 million in loans from commercial banks to farmers. Boren and his allies reluctantly accepted this as the most that could be achieved immediately. But when Boren took the actual letter to a meeting of all 47 Democratic Senators Thursday afternoon...