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...question of blocking. For the last month, bickering has been the priority. Classes have fallen behind in importance to this all-consuming issue. Friendships gain a new dimension of tension. People studiously avoid the topic that carries weight for the next three years of our lives. Tears flow freely. Friendships seem to go up in flames. The little white lies my mother swore by backfire dramatically. Being blunt is the only option; then havoc breaks loose. We have been reduced to eighth grad--people stop talking to each other, talk behind each other's backs, scheming busily...
...Perhaps Harvard should require that its campus groups work with a single bank, which can set up guidelines for check-writing and other financial reports. Balancing a checkbook may not seem that difficult, but many campus organizations look like small businesses at times, businesses that have an often overwhelming flow of payments that need to be processed. The bank could even offer training for newly elected treasurers. Many an eager but inexperienced club member is thrust into this position so that older members can concentrate on the "visionary" aspects of running their projects...
...intensification of broadcasts by the U.S.-sponsored anti-Castro Radio Marti. Despite all the fanfare, the measures "won't hurt Cuba much," says TIME's Cathy Booth. "The general attitude in Florida is that Clinton's measures are not nearly enough. He didn't even cut off the flow of money transfers from Cubans in America, which has been done in the past. Clinton is just placating the Republicans who call him soft on Castro...
...some cases coercing the city's 50,000 ethnic Serbs to leave Sarajevo before the Croat-Muslim federation takes over the administration of the Vogosca district of Sarajevo on Friday. Heavy snow is still hampering the efforts of the city's Serbs to leave, but a steady flow of vehicles is leaving the city, and many families are packing their possessions. Some moderate Sarejevan Serb leaders who tried to persuade their followers to remain have been threatened for "not toeing the line," says Alexander Ivanko, a spokesman for the unarmed supervisory police force which monitors the Muslim-Croat constabulary, soon...
...some residents are concerned that the lack of a mayor will impede the flow of city decisions...