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While the Lampoon-heavy writing staff of “The Simpsons” make generous use of Harvardian allusions (the curator of the Springfield Historical Society is named Hollis Hurlbut), Schur says he doesn’t rely on college for comedy. “I don’t think undergraduate experiences have really tangibly ‘shown up in my writing’ per se,” he writes, “except perhaps in some kind of Proustian/Spinozan collective conscious experience way. Please do not write that I used ‘Proustian/Spinozan collective...
...agreement and withdraw its troops from Angola. Then, appearing before Parliament, Botha agreed to allow neighboring Namibia's internal political organizations, both black and white, to form an interim administration with a bill of rights and a constitutional court and council. Though not amounting to full self-government, that generous-seeming offer aroused fears in the West that South Africa, which has ruled Namibia in defiance of the United Nations for almost two decades, might be trying to dodge international demands for a pullout from the region by attempting to reach an under-the-table agreement with its Namibian opposition...
...included a generous sprinkling of lighter quandaries (do you mention a friend's bad breath to him, do you tell another player you have seen his answer card?) and imaginary situations (you are a politician . . .). But even the picayune posers are intended to provoke. Says Makow: "The small decisions are very important. People love to talk about these everyday moral dilemmas...
...million in 1982 to $106.5 million this year, but much of the money has come at the expense of other health programs and much of the initiative has come from Congress, not the Administration. Says Congressman Henry Waxman of California, who has been leading a drive for more generous support: "The amount being spent on AIDS is a drop in the bucket compared with what we need for this emergency...
...uncharacteristically generous gesture, [Cuban President Fidel] Castro said that any Cuban citizens who wish to pay their respects to the Pope at the Vatican will be given a free raft and a push." --DENNIS MILLER