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...access to all the world's shipping, including that of Communist nations. It has deliberately kept fees and tolls as low as possible. Says David McCullough, author of The Path Between the Seas, a meticulous history of the canal's construction: "The fact is no power on earth could have done what we did. We've done a lot of small, stupid things in the Canal Zone over the years, but we've never done anything operating the canal that we need be ashamed of." With considerable reason, Americans can relinquish control of the great ditch...
...Christ, although Christians have differences of opinion about this. Daniel Pierce '78 explains his view on the second coming, which he characterizes as conservative and based directly on a reading of the Corinthians section of the Bible. First, there will be rapture, he says. "All the Christians on earth will disappear. We will be caught up to meet Him in the air." A seven year period of tribulation will follow the rapture. During that time, "a lot of Israelis will be converted to Christianity." At the end of seven years, great armies will attack Palestine, the bastion of Christianity--Pierce...
Morrison leaves us without resolution of the problems her characters face. Freedom from the urban ghetto, where life is dominated by discrimination and where one can only fight back with wit or violence, means leaving the comprehensible world. Both Pilate and finally Milkman have left the earth: they are off in a world that is inaccessible. Song of Solomon opened with the attempted flight of a lonely insurance salesman, off the roof of No Mercy Hospital; his failure is not a good omen for Milkman's flight. But the attempt, Morrison suggests, is the important thing. Milkman must decide between...
...students in Natural Science 10, "Earth History and Present Patterns" all prepared to go on a field trip yesterday, as they had Saturday, to view rock formations in the Connecticut River Valley. But at 10:15 A.M., on their second stop, the bus broke down...
...their way to Cambridge. On an autumn afternoon that must have inspired the new Top 40 release, "Heaven on the Seventh Floor," they also found a Harvard team still in the clouds over last week's sacking of Dartmouth and a golden opportunity to bring the Crimson back to earth...