Word: life
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...classroom. Don't be afraid to try something you've never seen or even heard of before. Play rugby, join a dance class, write for one of the dozens of publications--even if you've never done anything like that before. It could be the greatest experience of your life...
...roster of antidrug strategies, some of the approaches he emphasized are likely to fuel further debate over whether constitutional guarantees will be a casualty of the war against drugs. A decade of stepped-up antidrug efforts has already left its mark on American law and life. Powerful state and federal forfeiture laws permit the confiscation before trial of virtually any kind of property remotely involved in or "intended for use" in drug transactions. Drug-sniffing dogs search hallways in Houston public schools. Public housing officials in some cities have evicted the families of suspected drug users. Already...
...Western Europe has its rust belt and its regions of rural poverty. Nor has Western Europe totally escaped the scourges of drugs and violence. Yet many West Europeans are not only matching Americans in material wealth, but they also believe themselves to be enjoying a better quality of life. "I don't know what America has to offer me that I haven't got already and that I would envy," says British architect Ian Grant. "There's no intellectual challenge at all. The only challenge is making money...
...full pursuit of the good life themselves, few West Europeans would second that harsh assessment. The centerpiece of the Community's comeback is the E.C. plan to put in place something that Americans take for granted: a single marketplace in which goods, services and workers can circulate freely, and where competition can reward efficient enterprise. In 1957 the E.C.'s founding treaty promised just such a common market, but although member states dismantled intra-Community tariff barriers, they retained a bewildering barrage of regulations to restrict trade and curb competition. Although Western Europe has no immediate plans to create...
EVEN more central to campus life this year was the intense and, at times, bitter struggle to boost minority and women faculty hiring. Nearly 3000 undergraduates signed a petition to this end this spring, and it was the Minority Student Alliance which issued the stinging critique that prodded the Faculty of Arts and Sciences into action last year...