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...latest Polish loan request. Earlier, six major U.S. banks decided in New York City to deny any additional money for the time being. But after eight hours of talks in Zurich, the bankers broke up, concluding that they had little choice but to let the Polish debt problem drag into the new year...
Returnable containers encourage the habit of saving, rather than waste. They have also already proved profitable, especially to citizens willing to pick up roadside litter and drag it to a nearby recycling station. Churches and schools now raise funds by organizing collection drives. So do individuals. Arthur Bush, 12, of Portland, Me., makes anywhere from $3 to $7 each time he devotes a few hours to rummaging for returnables in trash cans and parking lots; Adalbert ("Al") Politz, 56, of Bloomfield, Conn., made enough sorting through nearby Hartford's refuse last year to buy his son a Christmas present...
Watching French Marxists grapple with the radical theories of Michel Foucault, says the philosopher's Translator Alan Sheridan, is like watching "a policeman attempting to arrest a particularly outrageous drag queen." The solemn specialists who patrol the American university have their own difficulties with Foucault. Leo Bersani of the French department at Berkeley eulogizes him as "our most brilliant philosopher of power," but Yale Historian Peter Gay dismisses him: "He doesn't do any research, he just goes on instinct." Anthropologist Clifford Geertz of the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study attempts a new classification: "He has become...
...become involved in sports. Her mother captained three teams while attending Hartwill College and Sara's father played varsity soccer and baseball at Princeton. All six of her brothers participate in sports and the two brothers closest in age to the 21-year-old right halfback used to drag her along to their ice hockey games to make the teams even...
...officer will rarely have to drill," says Bryon Fortson, a cadet corps commander and MIT senior. "But here it's an important part of developing leadership skills, and of nurturing a sense of self-discipline." A Harvard freshman couches his feelings in less official terms. "Sure it's a drag getting up at 6:30 a.m., but I kind of like all the marching around...