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...United States portrays itself as the protector of Latin American interests from Soviet or Marxist imperialist aggression. But the Soviet Union has its own protective role in the hemisphere, guarding Socialist states from imperialist aggression from the United States. Latin America may wonder what will happen to the principle of national sovereignty in the face of newly allied superpowers...
...like many of my friends who happen to be of a minority background, have been at a table where we were the only minorities present on many occasions. Furthermore, I believe that it is a credit to the minority students at Harvard that they can choose to eat with whomever they wish. Besides, if a group of minority students wishes to sit at a table together, so what? However, it is also true that a table of minorities hardly represents the entire minority population...
...that "A Chorus Line is not an appropiate script for an all-Asian cast." According to whom? Just because the Broadway cast is not all-Asian, does that mean that it cannot be adapted by an all-Asian cast? A crucial element to the "Chorus line" production, which I happen to be familiar with, is dance. Is Mr. Hsia aware that, in the movie version of "A Chorus Line" the actress who was cast to play the part of "T&A" had never had any dance training in her life? I am more concerned with the artisitic merit...
What would happen if foreign producers cut off the U.S. supply of crude, as OPEC did in the 1970s? In the short run, the U.S. would not experience dire shortages. A Commerce Department study found that in the event of war, the country's demand for fuel could be met by domestic production and the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Created 13 years ago, the reserve is now up to 515 million bbl., equivalent to about three months' total consumption, stored in salt caverns along the Gulf Coast of Texas and Louisiana...
...amply declared, is that this country's oldest lake, and one of its most unusual, is being destroyed. Even the Los Angeles department of water and power concedes that the Mono Lake ecosystem could collapse. "We feel comfortable that we have 20 years before it's going to happen," says David Babb, a staff naturalist. There is time for more studies. But for now, he says, the ) department has no way to replace its Mono water, 100,000 acre-feet a year, 17% of the city's supply. The Mono Lake Committee, a courtroom adversary, says it sees an "incremental...