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...competitive election for chairman of the committee on academics, Mar Baum '80, an Adams representative defeated Eric B. Fried '80, a Currier representative in a run-off, 42-25 with two abstentions...

Author: By J. WYATT Emmerich, | Title: Assembly Wraps Up Elections; Committees to Meet This Week | 10/24/1978 | See Source »

...city of 300,000 that ranks with Najaf in Iraq as one of the world's greatest centers of Shi'ite learning. Located 75 miles south of Tehran, Qum is both a symbol and a model of the Iran that the mullahs yearn to preserve. No television aerials mar the pristine skyline; no public cinemas threaten to seduce the inquisitive; no bars or liquor stores offend the strict life of the observant. All women wear the chador and devote much of their lives to weaving fine Persian carpets. Thronging the streets are thousands of turbaned, black-robed mullahs whose entire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: The Shah's Divided Land | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

Because of an even split among the other justices, Powell's 55-page opinion has become the authoritative verdict on Bakke. In that Powell's opinion upholds the constitutionality of affirmative action, it is a strong and praiseworthy decision. But serious deficiencies mar the Powell opinion, leaving the future of affirmative action programs in jeopardy...

Author: By Peter R. Melnick, | Title: Bakke: The Morning After | 6/30/1978 | See Source »

...Penn victory left the Crimson with a 3-0 league mar (7-3 overall) heading into Tuesday's showdown at home with a surprisingly tough Dartmouth squad at home. The Big Green is 5-1, 2-1 league, after beating Penn and losing to Columbia this weekend...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Racquetmen Punish Penn, 6-3, For Sixth Victory in a Row | 4/24/1978 | See Source »

Ashore, all France seemed to be mobilizing to fight back la Marée Noire (the Black Tide). Trains to Brittany were jammed with volunteers, mostly young people expecting to spend their Easter holidays literally scrubbing rocks and gathering up blackened birds. Handprinted signs in every coastal village from Portsall to Roscoff announced mobilization meetings. Newspapers all over the country were flooded with offers of money and goods for Brittany's hard-hit fishermen; a radio station collected everything from pitchforks to rubber boots. A folk music group offered the earnings from a special new recording about the spill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Black Tide | 4/10/1978 | See Source »

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