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About an hour later, an NRC spokesman said the chairman had already drafted a letter expressing his regrets about the "unfortunate incident," explaining that he did not recognize Agnes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Official Dragged From NRC Hearing | 10/15/1988 | See Source »

...missionaries work 60 or 70 hours a week, with no vacations. "For 24 hours a day, we are trying not to think about ourselves and trying to help other people," Tolk says. One day a week is reserved for preparations such as laundry, grocery shopping, letter writing and some relaxation, such Griffin says he thinks total dedication to the church is important, because the work is very intense. "You are always thinking about it, praying about it and mulling it over in your mind...

Author: By Wendy R. Meltzer, | Title: World Travelers With a Purpose | 10/14/1988 | See Source »

Editor's Note: The author made clear that this letter reflects his personal opinions and not necessarily those of any other member of the Harvard-Radcliffe Zionist Alliance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Considering Question #5 | 10/13/1988 | See Source »

Equally, he appreciates Shaw's arch humor. He cites deadpan a letter to the editor in which Shaw "wrote of Jack the Ripper as an 'independent genius' who by 'private enterprise' had succeeded where socialism failed in getting the press to take some sympathetic interest in the conditions of London's East End." Recalling Shaw's epistolary romance with actress Ellen Terry, he quotes a vintage bit of Shavian grumping: "Let those who may complain that it was all on paper remember that only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love." Describing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: From Crybaby to Curmudgeon | 10/10/1988 | See Source »

Student reaction to the expenditure has been less favorable. Senior Eliot Young, a member of Students for a Responsible Society, an undergraduate group, said in a letter to the Daily Princetonian that the $50,000 spent on the kiosk could have paid for two single family residences in nearby Trenton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Princeton to Build $50,000 Kiosk | 10/8/1988 | See Source »

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