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This weekend, Harvard travelled to the Empire State to face Ivy League rivals Columbia and Cornell. While Manhattan and Ithaca are about as similar as Charles Dickens and Jack Kerouac, the Crimson likes them just the same...
...time when we face new challenges and dilemmas that urgently need our attention. A farewell address represents a serious opportunity to define the problems and offer solutions. If Reagan realized that he had this opportunity, he gave the American people no sign when he asked them to remain unquestioningly proud of their country. And that's too bad because this lame-duck President won't get another chance...
...Brazil, have learned they merely forfeit all chance of fresh credit. Yet another plan, advocated by James Robinson III of American Express, urges creation of an international debt-management authority. The body would buy all outstanding downgraded bank loans. The difference between the loans' current discounts and their face values would be absorbed by the contributors to the authority, comprised mainly of wealthy countries. Once the loans are settled, the debtor countries would be eligible for new investments from other sources...
While Congress recognized the need for the closings, lawmakers were gun-shy about the protests they were certain to provoke. So the legislators found a way to face the issue without having to make the painful choices themselves: they passed a bill endorsing the creation of a twelve-man bipartisan commission that would decide on the sites for closure. The commission submitted its recommendations to Defense Secretary Frank Carlucci last week; both he and the Joint Chiefs of Staff were reportedly prepared to approve them. The list will next go to Congress where it must be considered on a take...
...region' s fragile democracies face social unrest and political turmoil if their massive foreign loans are not reduced, but U. S. institutions have yet to come up with many acceptable solutions. -- Why do Australia' s Aborigines die at alarming rates in police custody? -- South Yemen embraces a modest version of perestroika. -- Racial troubles flare in the Chinese city of Nanjing...