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From across the country come poignant stories of lifelong workers facing a hollow old age. Charles Thibodeau, 58, was laid off from the James River paper mill in Fitchburg, Mass., last spring -- just 3 1/2 years short of retirement. Although his children are grown, living on unemployment has required some belt tightening. "Not much you can do," he sighs. "Pay the bills. Taxes are going up, and we don't have much money coming in." It makes for a simpler life. "Once in a while we used to like to go out to a lounge and have a few dances...
...lower than the overall class average. The Crimson has labelled the consideration given to alumni children (or legacies) as "anachronistic" and the consideration of athletic accomplishments an "unconscionable compromise of Harvard's touted academic standards." At one point they suggested that children of alumni were admitted "...to quote J.S. Mill, `merely for having taken the trouble to be born...
With the release of these data, a debate once cluttered by factual uncertainty is now presented in its starkest terms: Harvard admits a large number of substantially less qualified students on the basis of their skill on the playing field or, to quote J.S. Mill, "merely for having taken the trouble to be born...
...grist for her artistic mill is the jagged facts of her life. To sort these out you have to suspend normal conventions of reality and place yourself in her screenplay childhood. "Other people's fantasy was my reality," she says...
Patrons at the Blue Mill Tavern in New York City's Greenwich Village last Monday were greeted by a rare sight: the TV set in the bar was tuned not to Monday Night Football but to a documentary on PBS. On Capitol Hill, Senator Ted Kennedy, a Yankee Democrat, and Senator John Warner, a Virginia Republican, were riveted by the same show. Across the U.S., people debated the battlefield tactics of Robert E. Lee, marveled at the letter-writing eloquence of Civil War soldiers and traded stories of ancestors who fought in the nation's great holocaust...