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...wish to express our dismay at the omission of anthropology from the agenda of the conference recently held at Radcliffe on "Challenging the Conventional Wisdom: A Decade of Research on Women and on the 3rd World "This conference was reported on in your edition of April 9. The omission of the empirical findings and theory of anthropology from the panels was inexplicable in light of the critical contributions the discipline has made to the issues addressed by the conference...
...letting loose of it even for a day seems important now to Pete Rose, almost 42, bothered by the Phillies' predisposition to rest him occasionally this season. But his dismay is blunted by his happiness at being back in the company of old Cincinnati comrades Joe Morgan, 39, and Tony Perez, 40. Besides, Rose has a plan. "Whenever I'm out of the lineup, I'll drive [Manager] Pat Corrales so nuts he'll have to get me out of the dugout. My edge has always been to play every day, to try to lead...
...significantly in error. Now, in this national election, few people trusted poll predictions. Second, with 10.4 percent of the German labor force unemployed and a new high in business bankruptcies, a number of wildcards had been introduced into the political game and upset many players who still recalled with dismay the disastrous political consequences of the 1929 economic depression. Third, the unprecedented appearance of three major foreign leaders--Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko. French President Mitterand, and Vice President Bush--all parading through Bonn and taking public stands, inevitably produced shock waves echoing back and forth unpredictably in the electorate. Fourth...
...Carey, who spends much of her time trying to convince prospective that Harvard is a rewarding place, is herself an example of how effective minority recruiting can be in dispelling myths about the University. She attended a small Catholic high school in Brooklyn where her classmates evinced surprise and dismay when they found out she was accepted at Harvard. This reaction (which she now calls "outrageous") almost convinced Carey to change her mind, until her parents intervened to encourage the Ivy League choice...
...took command. It was a year in which Israel's truculent Prime Minister Menachem Begin completely redrew the power map of the Middle East by invading neighboring Lebanon and smashing the Palestinian guerrilla forces there. The military campaign was a success, but all the world looked with dismay at the thunder of Israeli bombs on Beirut's civilians and at the massacres in the Palestinian refugee camps. It was a year in which Argentina tested the decline of European power by seizing the Falkland Islands, only to see Britain, led by doughty Margaret Thatcher, meet the test by taking them...