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...news here is that the railroad train has been reinvented splendidly. On Nov. 8 at 5:55 p.m., three sleepers, a piano club car and a dining car of the American-European Express, each refitted to five-star, died-and-went-to-heaven standards, will leave Washington's Union Station and roll into legend. The next morning at 10:17, some 50 cosseted passengers, dreamy from a night of love and laughter, aslosh with breakfasts that on a recent test run from Panama City, Fla., to Atlanta included crepes with crabmeat, followed by eggs, spinach, hollandaise sauce and baby lamb...
Numerous organizations on campus, both to the right and to the left, were founded with the express intent of endorsing and promoting specific political convictions. PBHA ought to uphold its laudable and unique tradition of disinterested service. Bear in mind, for example, that the failure of OXFAM to gain broad appeal is due to the fact that a large portion of the public believes it to be politically biased. If PBHA is seriously interested in raising money for its many worthy progrms, it must immediately discontinue its active role in all governmental politics. Adam W. Smith '90 Naomi H. Wittes...
...chest." To date over 130 Palestinians who have resisted the Intifada have been brutally murdered by their own brothers. What will it take for people to realize that the Intifada is not a peaceful demonstration like the one in Tiananmen Square, the suppression of which prompted Yassir Arafat to express "extreme gratification"? The Intifada is a violent movement that kills and maims with bombs and stones. When will we stop "romancing the stone...
When he learned of Cartagena's detention, Vellucci contacted government officials in El Salvador and the U.S. and placed a direct phone call to the Archbishop of El Salvador to express his concern...
...hear that the politically correct response to the ongoing. NYNEX strike--the way that we students can best express our solidarity with the oppressed employees of the telephone company--is to refuse to pay our phone bills this month. To me, that seems a tempting way to "fight the power," but in the end it's a move that my roommates and I simply cannot afford to make...