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After a semester of weekly meetings and research, the task force on concentrations has moved into final debate on such questions as the fate of elite majors and the shape of the general guidelines the panel will recommend for concentrations. While the task force will not take on the Faculty establishment by proposing the abolition of concentrations and a return to the pre-Redbook electives system, it will inevitably encroach on the traditionally autonomous Harvard departments...
...most controversial proposals, believes that Rosovsky's filtering system simply recognizes the largest problem of the educational review--carving proposals that the Faculty "will support enthusiastically and put time into." If Rosovsky had sent proposals to the Faculty "cold turkey," Wilson says, the dean would have risked the fate of the Doty committee, which reviewed undergraduate education in the '60s--with little lasting success...
Equally worrisome was the fate of thousands of civilians who fled before the M.P.L.A. advance. Some 80,000 refugees were heading south, threatening to overrun four camps South Africa maintains just inside Angola, already crowded with 12,000 earlier refugees. Last week the United Nations refused to give South Africa money to deal with the additional flood, but the Red Cross promised an airlift of blankets, tents and medicine...
Right at the outset, a veteran charter fisherman, Nichol Dance (Warren Gates), threatens to kill his upstart competitor Tom Skelton (Peter Fonda). The remainder of 92 in the Shade is spent waiting for this inauspicious event to occur. Neither Dance nor Skelton pays any mind to fate or fortune, an attitude that makes for short suspense. This did not matter quite so much in Thomas McGuane's novel, which went heavy on atmosphere, but it pretty thoroughly confounds any movie adaptation, including, sad to say, the author...
...genocide come from relatively complex societies with social stratification. Unequal struggles between prestate societies seem rather rarely to have been followed by extinction of an entire breeding population or local group. Dispersal, adoption or marriage into the victorious group, or slavery seem more often to have been the fate of those defeated. In pre-state societies genocide appears likely to have been a costly strategy. Recent works by Parker (1975) and Popp and DeVore (in press), based on the same body of theory as is Sociobiology, suggest why this should be so: individuals threatened with death and the death...