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There are only two kinds of people in northwestern Pennsylvania's Lawrence County-the "English" and the "Dutch." The first category includes nearly everybody-Wasps, Italians, Jews, Irish, blacks. The second category covers only the Amish. To say that the Amish are different is merely to state the obvious. They are followers of a sect that originated in Switzerland back in the 17th century and, in search of religious freedom, fled to England and Holland in the 18th century and moved to America in the 19th. In this day of home computers and space travel, the Amish eschew zippers...
Other schools' abandonment of such financial aid programs has taken place quietly. Just recently, investigative efforts by Northwestern University's student government discovered that that institution had rejected several thousand applicants because they could not pay tuition--well before announcing its abandonment of aid-blind admissions...
...streets of Xian, the principal city in northwestern China, are a hub of activity. Young men and women, dressed in greys, greens, blues, and white, walk along the mud and brick sidewalks. An old woman toddles along on her small bound feet. People riding bicycles and pulling handdrawn carts fill the streets. An old man passes carrying a straw basket of produce on the back of his bicycle. Another man pulls concrete blocks in a hand-cart. Not permitted to own cars, individual Chinese haul everything from steel and logs to their crippled grandmothers by hand-cart and by bicycle...
Brutus may pay for his outspokenness. A professor at Northwestern University in Evanston, III, since 1970 and a visiting professor at Amherst this year, he now faces deportation by the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS). After years of tireless activism, the man whom a defector from the South African secret police labelled as one of the 20 most effective opponents of the apartheid government may be cast back into the arms of his former oppressors. But this is not the first time he has come into conflict with government authorities...
Brutus went first to London and eventually to the United States, where in 1973 he received tenure at Northwestern as a professor of English. Despite its having "the worst football team in the country." Brutus says he admired Northwestern because of its extensive African Studies program. His most important intellectual achievement during the the past 10 years, he says, was the establishment in 1974 of the African Literature Association, a scholarly society that now includes more than 900 members...