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...most meaningful experiences are those of early childhood -- experimentation with fire, ache of first grief, joy of love returned, and the other side of that coin, anguish of affection repulsed. So far as adult experience is concerned, to one who will bear a few of its stripes to the grave, it seems a thing to be avoided. Thomas North put it pithily in his introduction to (Plutarch's) Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans: 'Experience is the schoolmistress of fools.' North meant that those persons, individually or in association with others . . . unwilling to study history are condemned to relive...
...publicity that has accompanied the recent intense worldwide hunt for the Nazi fugitive. The U.S., German and Israeli governments last month agreed to pool their resources in the hunt for Mengele. This week a five-man Brazilian team will begin comparing the bones and seven teeth exhumed from the grave with medical and dental records of Mengele, dating back to 1938, that have been sent from West Germany. But, as Forensic Expert De Mello admitted, "we will never be able to make an absolutely certain, positive identification...
...Conservative government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher unveiled plans last week for the most ambitious overhaul of Britain's $51 billion-a-year welfare program since the cradle-to-grave system was launched in 1948. Some 20 million people would be affected, whether through tightening of the qualifications for a once-only maternity grant, eliminating a state-financed pension fund or restricting the $38 payment for funeral expenses to poor families. Special aid for the needy, housing benefits and payments to unemployed youths would also be axed. The foundations, the National Health Service and the basic old-age-pension system...
...between a dandy sandstorm and a typhoon of grasshoppers; Blue Duck is a menacing piece of work with his necklace of amputated fingers; a bear fights a bull to a draw; and a dead hero is packed in salt and carted more than a thousand ceremonious miles to his grave. There are also long, featureless stretches that add up to the reading equivalent of driving across Texas. But McMurtry knows exactly what he is doing in this sentimental epic. He is an uncommonly shrewd judge of book flesh...
Apparently, the University and the Faculty handled the situation differently than they did in 1983 when Jorge I. Dominguez, accused of harassment, was stripped of a committee chairmanship but not of his tenure. While the University received praise in February for getting tough with a problem seen as grave for women on campuses nationwide and in Harvard's Government Department specifically, in fact it remains unclear what if any role the University played in Hibbs's resignation. Moreover, it is possible that Harvard was impelled by threats of further action by one of the two women or by MIT itself...