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Last spring and early this fall, the masterscommittee took up the issue of diversity withinthe houses. "I think the majority of houses feeleach house should be a microcosm of the college,not a perfect microcosm, but [enough of one soresidents may enjoy the wide range of students atthe University]," said Leverett House Master JohnH. Dowling '59, who also chaired the SCA lastyear...
Mahfouz's untranslated trilogy Al-Thulathiyya (1957) is a 1,500-page family saga that spans 27 years and both World Wars and is read as a microcosm of Cairene society. He supported Gamal Abdel Nasser's 1952 coup d'etat but gradually grew disillusioned with the colonel's policies. "It is true that the revolution liberated the Egyptian people and pushed them into modern life," says Mahfouz, "but it led to many wars that tired us out." Mahfouz found himself at the center of controversy in 1979 when he publicly backed Anwar Sadat's peace treaty with Israel...
...battle for Texas' soul is a microcosm of Dukakis' national problem: luring Reagan Democrats back to the fold. Bentsen has been spending more time in Texas than in any other state trying to do just that. So how does a courtly and conservative Senator get his fellow Texans to vote for a Greek Yankee from the most liberal state in the union? "Basically, what Bentsen does," says his press spokesman, Mike McCurry, "is credentialize Dukakis in Texas...
...Texas is a microcosm of the whole election. The Bush and Dukakis camps readily agree that the decision of those Democrats who voted for Ronald Reagan in 1980 and 1984 will be crucial nationally. Texas has as many of these so-called Reagan Democrats as any other state, and like the electorate at large, they seem to be torn. For Tommy Rushing, pausing after changing a tire in his Lufkin garage, the economic issue is paramount. Says he: "I'm going to have to go with Dukakis. The Republicans don't have anything to show." About 150 miles...
...book The Spirit of Enterprise, cites the roaring success of several of the newest Silicon Valley semiconductor firms -- including Chips & Technologies and Cypress Semiconductor -- as proof that such start-ups are the best hope for continued U.S. economic growth. In what Gilder calls the "law of the microcosm," he contends that the use of computers has given individuals more opportunity to innovate. Says he: "As circuitry is compressed onto single chips, it enhances enormously the power of individual designers and entrepreneurial creators...