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There is no reason to be embarrassed. After all, the wooly mammoth play was all in fun, and Harris's letter deserves slow, thoughtful consideration...
Even if Bok is tired of the issue, he has no excuse for giving Harris such shoddy treatment while people are dying in South Africa every day and the mammoth crusade is an example of dumb college humor...
PERHAPS the mammoth incident just indicates the malaise many people feel about the divestiture issue. As one friend suggested, The Crimson might as well run a daily "Apartheid Outrage Update" box rather than print full stories on the latest divestment rally...
...even the freshmen admit they have a long way to go in their movement. "We can't say we've won the war just because one university has agreed to divest. The wooly mammoth is not yet saved--it's still extinct," says McDonald...
...This mammoth chronicle is Michener's longest yet, and like so many of those before it, contains perfunctory characterization, arid prose and an authentic gift for conveying the mighty sweep of history. This time the locus is the Lone Star State. Michener begins his tale in the early 16th century, when Tejas was unexplored Mexican wasteland. In the kilopage fictification that follows, events and personalities pass in review: the Alamo and the Battle of San Jacinto, Comanche raids, cattle drives, oil, religion, high school football, superpatriotism and real estate dodges. Much of this is fascinating, but it is propelled...