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...city council of the Midwestern metropolis has issued a resolution "deploring" and "condemning" Harvard's decision to withhold the diplomas of four anti-apartheid protesters pending a decision on discipline. The resolution also praises two Harvard students--both from Cleveland--for their courage in protesting South Africa's apartheid regime at a demonstration last...
...Spanish. But an Anglo lawyer in Coral Gables, Fla., who took the trouble to learn some limited Spanish now finds that most of his Hispanic clients prefer to speak to him in English. Says the lawyer: "America triumphs over these immigrants as it has over others." A survey of Midwestern Hispanic voters by the Midwest Voter Education Project probably is unrepresentative, since many Hispanics do not register, but nonetheless suggestive. Of the 1,346 people questioned, 9.4% spoke no English -- but almost twice as many, 17.9%, could not speak Spanish...
...this is Oz, Dorothy," says Billina, the talking chicken, "I'd rather take my chances back in Kansas." A wise bird. Any movie in which a Midwestern prairie actually looks more attractive and more interesting than the enchanted land over the rainbow is in big trouble...
...anyone beat the tale of Claudius (Christopher Keyser) who murders his brother King Hamlet, marries his widow Gertrude (Thea Henry), revels in his incest-purchased court luxury, and dies at the hands of his ungrateful stepson, Prince Hamlet (Andrew Sullivan). Of the plot, I'll say no more--the midwestern English profs who pen Monarch Notes probably have children to support...
...American beverage. But in Illinois and four other Midwestern states, an outbreak of Salmonella poisoning is causing Americans to approach milk with some trepidation. Since March 24, nearly 4,000 cases of the nasty gastrointestinal illness have been traced to milk sold by Jewel Food Stores. The still increasing numbers make this one of the worst Salmonella episodes in U.S. history. Three deaths have so far been linked to the disease, and 22 lawsuits have been filed against Jewel, which also owns the plant where the milk was processed...