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...fixed its national boundary at three miles offshore and has urged other nations to do likewise. "Manifestly, state boundaries cannot extend beyond the national boundary. By annexing Texas, the U.S. certainly did not commit itself to relinquish what has been a fundamental cornerstone of its world policy. That would mean in effect that Texas was not annexed to the U.S., but that the U.S. was annexed to Texas...
...Three Twenty Two suffers from too much editorializing and feature writing and too little respect for the basic tasks of a yearbook--thorough coverage of the events and trends of the previous year in words and pictures. The edition, nevertheless, represents a considerable amount of work, no mean amount of ambition, an improvement over the previous year, the passage of time, and the arrival of another yearbook...
...lover of Shakespeare and Greek drama, Düurrenmatt regards himself as a cynical realist, but adds: "I am not one of those who have lost all hope. Cynicism does not mean bitterness. If a situation is described in a cruel manner, it does not necessarily mean the author is bitter...
...resolutions pass, all cars parked overnight in Cambridge will be towed unless they belong to a resident of the City and have been registered with the City. Theoretically, this would mean that any student desiring to park overnight on local streets would have to establish legal residence in Cambridge...
This hyperbole has some basis in fact. The report compiled by Dean Elder in November made reference to the situation. "The emerging Ph.D," he said, "is not what we mean by an educated man, a man who combines wide-ranging learning with an attitude of simplicity and vividness, and who commingles good taste with an excited curiosity. Rather, he likely has become a sort of expert plumber in the card catalogues or other areas, and neither as teacher nor scholar will he throw off this inhibiting heritage...