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McKibben's arguments are most devastating when he tries to be frank and objective. He freely acknowledges that he does not know how the world will actually be different in the post-nature era, if at all. Such observations may seem equivocal, but they lend force to McKibben's arguments. No one knows what will happen, McKibben says; nothing is definite. When a world beyond humanity's reach no longer exists, there will be no security...
...instrument Woody uses these days is a patched-together twelve-key Rampone, made in Italy in about 1890. Like many of the horns in Woody's collection, it was supplied by fellow clarinetist Davern, who picked it up in a New York City pawn shop. Davern once offered to lend Woody a horn that had belonged to the great New Orleans clarinetist Albert Burbank, another of Woody's idols. Woody hesitated. "What if somebody steals it?" he said. "So what?" replied Davern. "They'll probably steal it while I'm playing it," said Woody...
This has not been an easy task, administrators say, since FAS's fiercely independent departments and academic programs do not lend themselves easily to comprehensive study. "This is such an enormously diverse and autonomous place that there's very little standardization across the board," says Pilbeam...
...Randomization (CAR), founded two weeks ago in opposition to the proposal made by Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57, announced that it will sponsor a formal discussion of the randomization plan. CAR also announced that it will try to convince house masters and Undergraduate Council representatives to lend their opposition to Jewett's proposal...
...homosexuals telegraph their sexualorientation to the person they are dealing with,that person has to be very careful with peoplethey are turning down," Kirby says. "It's going tobe a conscious decision to say, 'Okay, I'll rent,I'll hire, I'll lend' to avoid being broughtbefore the Commission Against Discrimination...