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...single Land Rover. More than half the 8,000 members of the Civil Guard are traffic policemen, who until recently wielded no instrument more deadly than a screwdriver (for prying license plates off illegally parked cars). Costa Rica's most powerful weapon is the 81-mm mortar, but there are only six of those in the whole country; and their ammunition, bought 30 years ago, no longer explodes...
Frustrated by the inconveniences wrought by their House renovations, a group of Dunster House seniors recently spearheaded a joke campaign to "put the mortar back in mortarboard." They hung a sign-up sheet in their dining hall asking how many classmates would be willing to go through Commencemment exercises sporting hardhats. About 40 volunteered. If you had to pick one symbol for the Class of 1984's four-year stay in Cambridge, it would have to be a hard...
...latest offensive began in early April when, according to the Vietnamese, the Chinese fired 40,000 artillery, mortar and rocket rounds at more than 100 targets across the border. In response, say the Vietnamese, they shelled the "Chinese land-grabbers." Without either confirming or denying that they provoked the latest fighting, Peking accused the Vietnamese of firing 10,000 rounds at "densely populated Chinese villages and towns in Yunnan and Guangxi." The Chinese claim Vietnamese infantry units have crossed the border in 90 places to lay land mines and plunder local settlements. Viet Nam recently showed off two Chinese prisoners...
...since the 1960s and is now bulging at the seams. Its buildings--Andover Hall, holding the chapel and administrative offices, and Rockefeller and Divinity Halls, both dormitories--need substantial maintenance work on the scale of the ongoing undergraduate House renovations. "There's a lot of sort of bricks-and-mortar work that needs to be done." Martin says...
That's what the education of the teacher is all about. It's not presumptuous to compare what we do to building the Temple; the danger is quite the opposite, to trivialize it, because it may look merely like a set of jobs--mixing mortar, carrying hods. You have to have a vision in your head of what the building will finally look like...