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...FIFTEEN YEARS AGO, WAUSAU, WISCONSIN, WAS HOMOGENEOUS AND COMPLACENT, among the whitest of cities in the country. No longer: beginning in the late 1970s, local churches began sponsoring displaced refugees from the wars in Southeast Asia, allowing them to settle in Wausau. As a result, the town (pop. 38,000) is now 15% Hmong, a people native to the mountains of Indochina who speak a language that until the 1950s had no written form...
After a cold and rainy tournament last weekend at Dartmouth--where the Harvard women's golf team finished fifth in a fifteen-team tournament--the weather gods pitied the Crimson by providing sun this weekend at the Yale Invitational...
...things that's important to me," he said, turning west on Wilshire, "is that feeling of being out here, being a consumer of all this stuff." Fifteen years or so ago, he had an office at 20th Century Fox, "an itinerant director's office. I had my own furniture. It was very pleasant. But I found all kinds of things drying up inside of me. I thought, I've got to get out of here...
...action inhibited fellow students' quest for knowledge and violated the principle of freedom of peaceable assembly. Considering that each Harvard class costs over $2,200, and that "Liberalism and Conservatism" has scheduled twenty-two hours of class sessions this term, this ten-minute outburst cost each student over fifteen dollars...
...have two requests for the Harvard Heritage Society. First, I would like a fifteen-dollar refund for myself and for all other students whose time and tuition were wasted. Second, I hope this group chooses an appropriate forum to express its views in the future, so that any other exhibition of its civil rights will not infringe on those of others. Scott M. Singer...