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Most Zionist leaders wanted to win the Arabs' friendship, and following the lead of Ber Borochov, a Russian Marxist who had taught that the Arabs' lack of an economically distinct culture would lead them to accept Jewish settlement easily, many of them thought it wouldn't be too difficult. Nearly all of them found it hard to realize that there were two separate nations in Palestine, that they had divergent concerns and nationalisms, and that economic separatism, though it kept one nation from directly exploiting the other, was making them more separate all the time...
...just in case anything went wrong with foreign suppliers. It seems that nearly every body knew. "We could see it coming," says James Boyd, who directed a federal commission that last summer predicted: "We conclude that an energy shortage, of severely disruptive and damaging proportions, is a distinct possibility in the immediate future...
...appears neither of these groups will be housed in the Kennedy complex. Western European Studies, located in its own building near the Divinity School, has voted a resolution not to move unless it can have the same facilities that it has now--an unlikely prospect in light of the distinct, secluded atmosphere of the present building. While cautioning that it is too early for a final decision, Stanley Hoffman appears skeptical about the new building: "We met with Pei and told him we did not want a Pentagon. If by some miracle he does come through, then we would move...
...closing, I would like to suggest that this problem provides one clear case in which the administration should seek a student voice. Those being asked to make the sacrifice have a distinct right to participate in the decision and to shape that decision between viable alternatives. Robert A. Ferguson Allston Burr Senior Tutor in Dunster House
There was a certain ring to the nickname "Endzone Crone." The safety, along with the distinct, stylistic idiosyncrasies of his craft--the Crone scramble, the Crone pump, the Crone interception--made the Zone a legend in his own time...