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Sachar's overall accomplishments in eighteen years have been impressive, and some argue that as founding president he still needs full authority to set Brandeis on its way. But Sachar has already brought his colony to a point where it needs a degree of independence. By refusing to offer concessions now he risks undoing eighteen years of achievement and a future of extraordinary potential...
...lyric postures toward experience that is clearly Henry's. The dream songs succeed in conveying all the angst and confusion of a nightmare--the hellish switchings of identy, the loss or mutilation of the physical self--in a form that is scrupulously lyric, based on the canzone, containing (usually) eighteen lines, and variously rhymed...
...Ever since the U.S. began experimenting with daylight-saving time in 1918, the nation during the spring, summer and fall has turned itself into a chaotic crazy quilt of conflicting time patterns. Eighteen states observe D.S.T. on a uniform statewide basis. In another 18 states, individual communities decide for themselves whether or not they will follow D.S.T. and set for themselves the dates on which it goes into and out of effect. Fourteen other states, including almost the entire South, remain on standard time all year long...
...copper output 50% by 1970. For faster relief, metal men are looking to Washington. They winced last year when the Government threatened to dump part of its stockpile to force back aluminum-price hikes. Now they only wish that the General Services Administration would accelerate plans to sell off eighteen kinds of stockpiled metals this year to ease the squeeze...
Peking is not only unrealistic about us. Chairman Mao even thinks of himself as the successor to Marx, Lenin and Stalin, whereas in actual fact, as the ruler of China, he is much more a successor of the emperors who ruled at Peking until 1912 when Mao was already eighteen years of age. To hear the Peking leaders talk talk you would think they were an off-shot of European Socialism. Actually the problems they face and the methods they use are in large part inherited from Chinese history...