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...that led me to law school. For 25 hours a week I worked to help set up the People's Translation Services in Berkeley, a collective gathering leftist material from Europe and putting out a news service for under-ground newspapers. That was without pay, so for ten to fifteen hours a week I worked with an urban planner whose specialty was commercial signs: billboards, neon signs, electric lights. I worked for him for nine months, helping him to write a book, but it was terrible. But it was PTS that drove me to law school. I felt it wasn...
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...shoulder. The three men advanced to the school, 100 yds. away, and were inside before the guards realized that they were there. Waving guns and hand grenades, the Palestinians jolted the sleeping students awake with kicks on the feet. "Lakum, lakum [Get up, get up]!" they yelled. Fifteen students, a few teachers and the rabbi realized what was happening and leaped out windows of the three-story building; some of them landed painfully on the gravel 20 ft. below. "I figured first it was a kid playing
...FIFTEEN YEARS ago a venerated, thick-jowled and white-haired English Man of Letters and Amateur Scientist named Sir Charles P. Snow delivered a famous lecture at Cambridge University. The title of the lecture was The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution. Sir Charles's message was that English and, in fact, all of Western society no longer possesses a "common culture." We are divided into scientists and nonscientists, and between us we no longer speak the same language. Since science dominates our lives and prospects, he pontificated, the scientific ignorance of politicians, businessmen, and everyone else except scientists themselves...
...Crimson fired its heavy artillery for the rest of the afternoon as it hit safely in each of the remaining innings, a far cry from last month, when fifteen hits was a weekend's worth...