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GGETTING AT recalcitrant students through their pocketbooks is no new strategy for the federal government. The most recent parallel to the new regulations linking federal aid to draft registration came in the late 1960's. Bill after bill was then proposed to bar federal aid from college students known to have taken part in protests and demonstrations. Harvard never had to deal with such a problem because the bills were never passed. In 1968, though, a rule on Harvard's own books restricted certain funds from being given to students who had been arrested. After the occupation of Paine Hall...
Between 4:30 and dawn, five or six near-encounters with guards left them terrorized One of these guards had casually strolled up the corridor 10 feet from where Jack and Jill were sitting under a large carrel, backs against the wall and legs stretched out parallel with two concealing rows of books. Most of the guard activity, it seemed, took place on Levels One through Four, making it all but impossible to retrieve the books and candy Jack and Jill had left on Three. It remained unclear whether the guards always walk so briskly and purposefully or whether they...
Predictably, the project has drawn some critical fire. Many southern Sudanese, who are black and often Christian, resent the diversion of their water to benefit the traditionally dominant Muslims of the north and of Egypt. But Sudanese officials say construction of the canal and a parallel all-weather roadway will aid the 6 million inhabitants of the south, enhancing communications and encouraging economic growth...
...only gradually that the beautiful woman who lives upstairs in his boardinghouse is haunted by a terrible past. Extended flashbacks, shot on location in Europe with English subtitles, slowly unfold the extent of that terror up to Sophie's final and tragic "choice," so that the viewer's reactions parallel Stingo's own. Longer than the conventional flashback, these sequences demonstrate Pakula's scrupulous care in reproducing Styron's tone. An actual concentration camp in Yugoslavia forms the background, and Meryl Streep as Sophie appears with near-shaven head, made up to look perceptibly younger and gabbling fluently in German...
There is a further rough parallel between the stormy personal waters Jobs was navigating at the time and some acute growing pains Apple was suffering almost simultaneously. The company's newest addition to the line, the Apple III, went on the market in November 1980 and turned out to be, at first, a thundering dud, what Jobs now characterizes as "an evolutionary product." Apple recalled and repaired the machines, and manufactured better new ones. "A learning experience" is what Jobs terms that parlous period now. Lisa?"a revolutionary product"?will determine just how well Apple has learned its lessons...