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Walking into Foxboro Stadium last week, the music of "Got to Get You Into my Life" sounded, felt and looked as if the Beatles were playing it live. On its feet and cheering, the crowd saluted only one-fourth of that celebrated group. On stage was Paul McCartney, one man trying to revive the magic that was the Beatles...
...Forty-one years of fighting for independence have worn down the rough edges of revolution like a well-pumiced stone. The largest of half a dozen tribes that rebelled against the republic of Burma in 1948, Karen insurgents have spent the past four decades waging war against Rangoon to establish an independent state in the southern part of the country. Of the 3 million ethnic Karens living in Burma, one-fourth have fled to jungle villages in the south, where the 5,000-man Karen army is based. Ignored or forgotten by most of the world, the anticommunist Karens rate...
...Derek Bok lobby in Washington, that would darn well have some influence," Dyer says. "Or, I think if ROTC got kicked off one-fourth of the campuses in the country, the policy would have to change...
...Core Curriculum: The distribution system that allows you to take one-fourth of your classes with 300 of your closest friends...
When Harvard boasts to prospective students of its 6:1 student-faculty ratio, it neglects to mention that students are forced to fill fully one-fourth of their requirements in courses that average more than 150 students each...