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Further questions loom in the future. What would happen, for example, if a hideously ugly project did no physical harm to the environment? Or what if a developer candidly admitted that his project would harm the environment, but the local authorities approved it anyway? Experts already are talking of three or four "generations" of suits and struggles over this most basic environmental issue, the use of the land...
Amherst squash conch Ed Serues whose team suffered a 9-0 trouncing from Harvard last Wednesday, claimed after the loss that Penn and Navy are possibly stronger squads which loom to dethrone the nationally top-ranked Crimson later this season...
...women" who strive to keep their schools nonpolitical. Despite their diverse resources, Kozol says that many of them offer children only "unimportant options," such as a choice between working with "bright and whimsical gadgets" like a packaged science game, or doing "their own thing" at the weaver's loom and potter's kiln. To Kozol, these choices are not really free, at least not in any way that genuinely matters. Instead of confronting their students with moral dilemmas and social problems, these schools offer only "the pretense of free choice within a carefully constructed framework of contrived...
...there are the Great Men. Churchill, de Gaulle, Petain, and especially Hitler loom up before the Clermont-Ferrand landscape. But they, too, exist as personalities in individual memories: Hitler is recalled as favoring "harmless little liaisons" over inter-marriage, claiming that his soldiers' desire to marry French women was caused "by lack of sexual opportunities." Those famous men who are interviewed, Anthony Eden and Pierre Mendes-France in particular, speak more of the times than of great events. Mendes-France, recalling his escape from prison, is reminded of the modesty of a young woman whose boyfriend propositioned her as they...
...just one more form of propaganda in a propagandized college football world. Coaches secretly wish that probing inquiries into the role of the individual in today's college football scene would silently go away. But they do not go away, and in the wake of 77.7 scores they loom larger than ever...