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...Friday U.N. officials in New York City claimed that peacekeeping commander Brigadier General Romeo Dallaire of Canada had brokered a partial cease-fire and that an interim government had been named. But within 24 hours rebel leaders, denying knowledge of the agreement, had renewed their offensive. Meanwhile members of the regular army were still attacking Tutsis and murdering any member of the political opposition they could find...
...Eliot] was a very preppy house; John [H.]Finley ['25] was the master," Powers says. "He wasvery partial to kids who had gone to prep schoolor had classical taste...
JUST ABOUT EVERYBODY HAS HEARD OF Lucy, the diminutive, apelike superstar of human evolution. The discovery of her fossilized partial skeleton in 1974 was startling evidence that humanity's ancestors walked the earth more than 3 million years ago, hundreds of thousands of years earlier than anyone had imagined. Since that find, paleontologists have unearthed many similar bones, some even older than Lucy's, in the same part of Ethiopia where she was found. Most believe that all the fossils come from a single species (scientific name: Australopithecus afarensis) and that this species was probably the forerunner of all later...
People for the American Way is releasing a study this week of 204 "challenges to artistic free expression" during 1992-93. These include attempts to remove paintings from exhibitions, stop productions of plays, revoke arts funding and the like. Here is a partial breakdown of the cataloged objections (categories may overlap...
...council approved a resolution last spring requiring undergraduates to write a letter to the Dean of Students in order to receive a partial refund of their council fee. The resolution requires the approval of the Faculty Council, which has not yet deliberated...