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Call it the NIMBY syndrome. It is happening in New York City, where middle- class homeowners are on trial on charges of setting fire to a foster home for infants. In tiny Louisa, Ky., it is the battle cry against a proposed hazardous-waste incinerator. It has cropped up in Berkeley, where residents banded together to keep out a drop-in center for the emotionally disturbed. The acronym stands for "not in my backyard," and it symbolizes a perverse form of antisocial activism. "Everybody says, 'Take care of the homeless, take care of the boarder babies,' " says New York City...
...Barron '89 Julie L. Bridegam '89 Martha A. Bridegam '89 Noam S. Cohen '89 Susan B. Glasser '90 Editorial Editors: Laurie M. Grossman '89 John C. Yoo '89 Features Editor: Brooke A. Masters '89 Sports Editor: Mark T. Brazaitis '89 Business Editor: Amy J. Merritt '90 Copy Editor: Louisa Oliver...
...Meter Run--1. Louisa Gerritz, Yale, 4:30.86; 2. Wendy Smith, Brown, 4:31.06; 3. Laura Cattavira, Princeton, 4:32.04;6. Tina Lount, Harvard...
...glad I know how to do the swing now," said Louisa Oliver '90. "Otherwise I'd make such a fool out of myself on Saturday--I took dance lessons in seventh grade, but we never learned the swing...
...judgment (real to me; the wrong verdict might mean that I would never see my father)." Other stories rehearse the misgivings of women who have fallen in love with previously married men. They wonder what the departed wives found objectionable, impossible to live with. Louisa is passionately devoted to Henry, but "it troubled her that she could not predict in Henry the faults that would cause her one day not to love...