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Rumanians dubbed the new policy, which was announced only two weeks after Ceauşescu's return from China, the mini-culturala, after Peking's Cultural Revolution. Among the casualties so far have been acid-rock music on state radio and in youth clubs (too Western), the movie Midnight Cowboy (perverted) and the American TV series...
...should come back to haunt him. He is a man who has always had a problem with credibility-a drawback that is not likely to be diminished this week when his strikingly self-serving political memoirs are published. Given the success of the Tory government's latest reflationary mini-budget (see BUSINESS) and a relatively painless entry into Europe, Wilson might be remembered only as the man who sacrificed a central principle for short-term gain-in marked contrast to the political consistency of Jenkins...
Karamojong women may sport a beaded apron or cowhide mini-breech-cloth, but the men will suffer nothing more than metal bangles or an eagle's feather in the hair, earrings and a few copper neckbands. Concerned that such casual garb would make Uganda appear backward, the country's ebullient President, General Idi ("Big Daddy") Amin, decreed that the tribesmen should don shirts, trousers and shoes. The order struck the Karamojongs as an act of naked repression. Village chiefs who tried to read Amin's declaration ("Nakedness is neither in your interest nor in the interests...
Coping with Change. Thriving on making choices, 75% of the students have done some form of independent study. When one pod offered week-long "mini-courses," a 13-year-old boy who had been in trouble with the police chose film making. He then directed 15 other children in a zany sequence of trick photographic effects. Elated at his success, he has stopped playing hooky and begun doing serious work. For a paper on Russian political attitudes, another boy has just finished reading piles of newspapers, Doctor Zhivago, and the Communist Manifesto. Last month a group of girls got credit...
...disrupted had followed an ad hoe strategy compounded of impotence and blind rage, and they did little organizing before or after the event. The ball landed in the Administration's court, and Harvard fielded it well. The Faculty Council issued a statement, and the Deans blitzed the Houses with mini-teachings on free speech and the liberal university...