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That 3500 students got together the week before reading period to do anything other than study for exams and write papers is nothing short of earth-shattering. Although this fervor is already diminishing as exams approach, students are likely to pick up next fall where they leave...
Gelsey threw herself at the challenge with typical fervor. Joining A.B.T. meant rapidly mastering the classical repertory of story ballets that Balanchine's company did not perform. It meant learning to act as well as dance, an opportunity that she both craved and feared: "I never really felt capable of doing the roles that people seemed to think I could do." Being out from under Balanchine's shadow also meant that she had no place to hide...
Proponents of the Constitution dismiss the idea of a student union as a romantic relic of '60s fervor. They are wrong. The student union approach is the most realistic and pragmatic way students can affect Harvard's cold, corporate decisions. It guarantees the most widespread mobilization of student opinions and pressure on the larger issues, and it focuses student influence in the Houses, dorms and departments, all of which the Constitution overlooks. The student union idea concentrates on the power realities at Harvard, not on sandboxes and soapboxes...
...Africa is in total shambles," says Illinois Congressman Edward Derwinski of the House International Relations Committee. "As usual, it's too little too late." In a trenchant editorial on the President's Lagos speech, the Washington Post accused Carter of succumbing to Nigeria's "uncomplicated fervor" for a guerrilla victory by the Patriotic Front forces, headed by Joshua Nkomo of Z.A.P.U. (Zimbabwe African People's Union) and Robert Mugabe of Z.A.N.U. (Zimbabwe African National Union). Meanwhile, the Nigerian joint communique failed to mention any progress achieved from Smith's internal settlement, which the Post called...
...contaminated by dieldrin, although there was nothing in their standard pellets of food that could account for the poison's presence. Jones, however, did find that there was a potentially damaging concentration of dieldrin in the sawdust used as bedding in the rodents' cages. With all the fervor of a Baker Street Irregular, he then traced the suspect sawdust to a maker of wooden window frames. There, Jones found, the manufacturer had, quite legally, sprayed a wood preservative containing dieldrin on his lumber to protect it against infestations of woodworms. The mice took in a little sawdust each...