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Wait a minute. Isn't this 1985, a good three years before the next Republican presidential convention? Yes, but some politicians believe that it is never too early to slap a back in pursuit of a dream. So there was George Bush, just back from an eleven-day official trip to Europe, ensconced in a reviewing stand in Bristol, N.H., in the state that just happens to hold the country's first presidential primary. Congressman Jack Kemp skipped the family barbecue in upstate New York to be in Iowa, traditionally the site of the nation's first party caucuses. After...
...break-dancing Latin teenagers with whom he hangs out. The older Koreans, he complains, "think they control everything in Flushing." At last count they did own 120 neighborhood businesses. "Some of those store owners," Polafia says, "think we're criminals." Nor are the Hispanics always fraternal among themselves. "There isn't much of a Hispanic family," says Hayly Rivera, who came from Peru to Jackson Heights. "It is sometimes more like a family feud." As ever, immigrants of several years' standing often look down on new arrivals. In some cases the political disputes of the old country crop...
...Cambridge and your first big excuse to procrastinate. And, even if those orgo books and problem sets are still sitting on your desk untouched, it'll be easier to ignore them now then it will be in a few weeks. So, if the summer school planners' idea of fun isn't yours (getting up at 7:30 A.M. Saturday to take a bus ride to crowded, touristy Newport) here are some suggestions of places to go, and things to do. Have...
...Santana isn't your speed, also on Friday night is the finals of the WBCN Rock Rumble in the Orpheum Theatre, Hamilton Place, Boston at 7:30 p.m., where some of Boston's baddest local bands will battle out for the championship...
...hijacked Lebanese plane were Professor Landry Slade, an American who is serving as an acting dean of the American University of Beirut, and his teenage son William. "It wasn't bad," the younger Slade remarked, after he and the other passengers had been released in Cyprus, "but it isn't something we want to talk about." Two days later, when he learned of the hijacking of TWA Flight 847, Landry Slade told reporters, "God help them all. I know what it's like." Professor Slade was, in fact, a good deal luckier than his colleague Thomas Sutherland, 54, dean...