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During these bridge periods, teams of professors present topics that encompass all the core courses such as economic legal analysis and corporate personality. Both professors and students admit however, that the bridge periods are still evolving "The bridge periods feel very experimental." says Professor of Law Todd D. Rakoff '67 a member of the experimental team...
...outburst of violence was the most recent indication that right-wing fringe groups, though they may be tiny in number and even dwindling, are heavily armed and well versed in paramilitary tactics. Although they encompass a variety of organizations--white supremacists, the Ku Klux Klan and militant tax resisters--the groups share an ideology and seem in some instances to be cooperating. Says FBI Spokesman William Baker of those recently arrested: "We are finding that they belong to other right-wing groups like the Ku Klux Klan. It adds to our concern about violence." According to Lyn Wells, director...
...this makes for slow action; a static quality pervades the stories. There is no movement or direction; the stories are themselves suspended in time. The narrators try to relate episodes which encompass vast spans of time and succeed only in describing trivial incidents meaningless in themselves. Guessing, wondering, regretting, and yearning constitute most of the action in these episodes. The tendency is to pause and to look inside, silently...
...minds. For the Olympics are happening all at once and all over the place. Only the epicenter is in Los Angeles. A slick L.A. cheer infuses the whole-banners the color of coral, the velodrome's playful curves-but not even the city's flabbergasting sprawl could encompass this Olympics' venues...
...compromise resolution attempts to encompass both concerns, committee members said...