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...Germany were the main centers of Jewish culture. The Jews in Spain were known as the Sephardim (Spanish in Hebrew) and the German Jews were called the Ashkenazim (German in Hebrew). The differences between the two are mostly in custom and culture. For example, during Passover, the Ashkenazim are forbidden to eat rice and beans, while the Sephardim may eat both...
...Harvard Council on Undergraduate Affairs last night endorsed a provision prohibiting undergraduate organizations from discriminating in their constitutions, and then rejected a broader provision which would have expressly forbidden organizations to practice discrimination in their membership or activities...
...biggest migraines is Kerr's own hemmed-in, 387-acre U.C.L.A. campus. Los Angeles' notoriously deficient public transportation cannot deliver the university's mostly commuter students; yet those who drive are forbidden to park on neighboring streets. So the school has been forced to build $2,800,000 worth of multilevel parking garages, plus other parking areas, which all take in $964,000 a year in fees. Yet this costly effort provides only 10,486 campus spaces for 38,800 students and teachers, and a 60-man staff has to herd U.C.L.A. cars in and out like...
Rush Hour Every Hour. In a recent poll of 317 colleges, Duke University found that only 5% of them ban all student cars. Apart from freshmen, who are usually forbidden to drive on campus, roughly one out of three U.S. collegians has a car. But the pattern varies widely. Miami is plagued with two-car students, while Purdue forbids freshmen and sophomores even to drive in the county around the campus. At well-heeled Northwestern, coeds tool to class in Cadillacs ("We've always had a high caliber of automobile here"). At Harvard, vehement Vespas grind like drunken dentists...
...plot comes clear. The boy and girl are in love because their love is forbidden; their feuding fathers have constructed a wall between their homes. But the fathers are no fools. They know that youths are rebels and will want what is denied them. In "Never Say No" the girl's father (Ron Lockhart) and the boy's father (Stephen Cotler) hilariously reveal the devilish ways of adults; they have contrived the feud and constructed the wall to make sure that their children will fall in love...