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Nearly 125 Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) students turned out last week at the Lamont Library Forum Room to hear the coordinators of the experiments--Ernest R. May, chairman of the History Department, and Dorothy G. Harrison of the New York State Education Department--explain the rationale and goals of the "Careers in Business Program...
Grace says many Indians feel inferior, lack self-confidence. This may explain why these people are often unable to function in another world...
...does not seem to matter to The Crimson, if Shahak's statements are lies, half-truths, and outright slander. When Shahak says that the discrimination against Arabs in the Jewish State closes all branches of the government to them, how does he explain the presence of Arab members in Israeli Labour Party and in that party's Central Committee, as well as in the Israeli Parliament? On the other hand could anyone tell me the number of Jews in the Egyptian Arab-Socialist Union, or in the Syrian or Iraqi Ba'ath Party, or perhaps in the Jordanian Parliament...
With my whole soul I said, 'Now I will not be silent.' " He addressed his letter to four Soviet papers, all of which refused to publish it. But he gave copies to Western newsmen. Referring to the officials who pass upon art in the Soviet Union, Slava asked: "Explain to me, please, why in our literature and art so often people absolutely incompetent in this field have the final word? . . . Every man must have the right fearlessly to think independently and express his opinion about what he In knows, what he has personally thought about, experienced, and not merely...
Chemistry. A Russian-born professor at the Free University of Brussels, Ilya Prigogine, 60, is a poet of thermodynamics whose work helps explain how life could have come into being on earth in apparent defiance of some of the classic laws of physics. The second law of thermodynamics holds that energy tends to dissipate and that organized systems drift into disorder. But many biological processes, including the ones in which simple acids combine to form complex molecules or in which cells join together to form higher organisms, seem to contradict this rule. Prigogine has provided a method for including biological...