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...institution of slavery? The answer to the Constitution's excessive symmetry was the Bill of Rights, which did not overturn the basic document but represented a risky extension into the realms of individual freedom that many of the framers thought dangerous. So here was the Enlightenment house with an ell attached, and a riddle: yes, the main structure was perfect, and, yes, it needed continuous work...
...whom are household names now. Missouri State Senator Harriett Woods, 56, who in 1982 narrowly lost her bid for the U.S. Senate to Republican Incumbent John Danforth, is moving into the national spotlight again with a race for Lieutenant Governor. In Oklahoma, four-term State Representative Cleta Deatherage Mitch ell, 33, caught the eye of national Democratic officials with her savvy performance as a member of the party's Hunt commission on delegate selection. In 18 months as Texas state treasurer, Ann Richards, 50, has won over bankers and businessmen by increasing the interest the state earns...
...There has been a significant reduction, said William H. Bossert '59, Master of Low ell House. Lowell was the scene of the most false alarms last year and seems to be suffering a high number again this year...
...Richard Tees of the University of British Columbia have shown that babies of six to eight months can distinguish sounds that are not used in their native language, but they have much greater difficulty by the age of twelve months. Japanese babies, for example, have no trouble with the "ell" sound that their parents find difficult...
DIED. Carl Ell, 93, former professor and dean of engineering, who served as president of Boston's Northeastern University from 1940 to 1959, expanding the school's engineering, liberal arts and education departments and guiding its growth from an enrollment of several hundred into one of the nation's largest private universities; in Newton, Mass...