Word: kurzman
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...women's JV team team improved its recod to 4-1-1 on the season with a 7-2 thumping of Yale Saturday. Elizabeth Samet tallied two goals, while Julie Clifford, Jodi Buonanno, Martha Abbruzzese, Tracey Hackeling and Cecelia Kurzman all recorded a goal apiece...
...pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, causing history's biggest industrial accident, a new book alleges that the tragedy may have been even more gruesome than assumed. The Indian government has said 2,700 people died at Bhopal. But in A Killing Wind (McGraw-Hill; 297 pages; $19.95), Author Dan Kurzman asserts that the death toll was at least 8,000. He speculates that Indian officials understated the figures in part to "keep the political shock waves under control...
Basing his estimate on interviews and private records, Kurzman writes that in the immediate aftermath of the disaster, 3,000 victims were cremated in conformance with Hindu custom, and 3,000 were buried according to Muslim rites. He also cites accounts that an additional 2,000 victims fled Bhopal and died elsewhere. Similar and even wilder versions of the disaster's toll have previously circulated in India. But compensation claims for deaths caused by the accident remain well below 3,000. Indian officials last week disputed Kurzman's finding. Said one: "The figure we announced was based on solid investigations...
Charles T. Kurzman...
...when in class the prevalent atmosphere isn't that of Harvard and the 10,000 men so hungry for victory. What I am insisting is that there is a sense of community on campus for the many women who are Radcliffe College--one that I am not surprised Mr. Kurzman has missed. It would be a tragedy to lose Radcliffe College because it would break the ties with our mothers--both those who went here and those who did not--in the very real stuggle for the rights of women. Jill C. Vialet...