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Lamont University Professor Amartya K. Sen will fly to Turin in March to receive the Fiat Group's Senator Giovanni Agnelli International Prize for the Ethical Dimension in Advanced Societies...
...press release, Fiat described Sen as an "untypical" character among contemporary academics...
...rules or guidelines for these activities have ever been issued by the masters--these guidelines originate in a student/tutor committee, following house discussion, and students, tutors and masters alike have consistently preferred self-regulation to imposed rules of censorship. Similarly, it was student concerns, not the master's fiat, which led to new Secret Santa revelation procedures for this year's dance...
Havel and company had been emboldened by the response to their call for a two-hour strike last Monday. At the stroke of noon, millions of workers and students took to the streets, shutting down hundreds of enterprises, from huge steelworks to the local Fiat service agency. Not only was the astounding turnout a sharp rebuke to the country's leaders, but it was a warning that a few cosmetic changes within the Politburo would not satisfy the demands for a more democratic system...
...short vacation." Because they were afraid to expose their plans even to friends and family, there was no one to bid them farewell at 9 that night, when they piled their children -- Christian, 5, Susann, 3, and Katrin, 9 months -- into their worn getaway car, a 1972 Fiat. They packed just a pair of knapsacks, then took off on what would be a five-day odyssey to the West...