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Yovicsin didn't even pause to consider my questions. He just told me that if I wanted to make a "contribution to the team," I should move to defensive end. Reluctantly, I agreed to do so. Throughout the previous year. Stephens and I had exchanged many harsh words. I knew he hated my guts and I'm sure he knew the feeling was mutual. I was not surprised to learn that he had been the one coach strongly recommending my removal to defense--away from...
...that will be used to pay bail bonds and to help needy students over financial humps. Some of the community's leaders have complained to Michigan Senator Philip Hart and Arkansas Senator J. William Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Hart called the Detroit crackdown "rather harsh and drastic," and urged that students from developing countries be allowed to hold jobs "in order to take advantage of the educational system" in the U.S. The State Department, concerned about international repercussions, has denied that Detroit is the start of a national trend. Officials of the Department argue that...
...opportunity for every European's intellectual and cultural growth, the end to polluting, and the conservation of the Continent's shrinking resources. That is a program many in the U.S. also embrace. Americans-and most Europeans, for that matter-are hardly ready to accept Mansholt's harsh conclusion that such goals are only possible if the West's present material standard of living is in fact reduced. But it surely would be a worthy transatlantic enterprise to search for a valid definition of gross national happiness...
Sometimes murder can be indirect, an act that Psychoanalyst Joost Meerloo calls psychic homicide: consciously or unconsciously, the murderer pushes someone into suicide. Meerloo cites an engineer who had struggled "all his life with a harsh, domineering and alcoholic father." On a final visit, he took along a bottle of barbiturates, suggesting that they could "cure" his father's addiction. In combination with alcohol, the prescription was fatal...
...harsh work. For a cottage with two or three bedrooms, four or five tons of reed or straw are required, and because thatchers prefer to work alone, the job often will take four to five weeks, all out-of-doors labor in England's cold and windy weather. Thatchers pick and choose their jobs: most prefer to work only in their home area and simply turn down the increasingly frantic demands that they take on jobs elsewhere. There are only about 400 master thatchers left, but their ranks are being swelled by young men, including several college dropouts...