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...LIGHT of this semester's numerous cutbacks in student services, the recent record of partial success and partial failure for two new student advocacy groups leaves believers in student activism with dampened but by no means extinguished hopes. One group is the Student Lobby, the 20 students who organized last month's "Eat-In" breakfast protest, which the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL) voted 10 to 12 not to recognize as an official undergraduate organization October 3. The other is a college-wide student government that Currier House organizers hope to form after House committees send delegates...
...will have to pull out from the West Bank." Hussein also indicated that he was willing to negotiate along the lines of the Israeli formula-a little land for a little peace. In return for an eight-to ten-mile strip along the Jordan River, Jordan would sign a partial agreement. The alternative, he warned, was for Dayan to "go deal with the P.L.O...
...such a context, Shahak's actions seem calculated to make more enemies than ever, but he says the mood of apathy on the one hand, and the partial improvement in the human rights situation within Israel on the other, has lessened the harassment of him personally and has stopped the "persecution" of his group. Yet according to Shahak, this change in atmosphere is not due to a greater awareness among the Israeli people of the linkage of human rights to Israel's survival--an issue the professor regards as crucial...
...German club in Asunción. Risking discovery, Mengele sometimes drinks too much; one evening, he drunkenly pulled out a pistol and waved it about. Another time he chatted with a visiting West German professor. Each time someone entered the bar, Mengele, who wears sunglasses as a partial disguise on his Asunción excursions, would quicky put them back on. Then, after he recognized the newcomer, he would take them off. Finally, he became so annoyed with putting on and taking off his glasses that he slammed them on the table, shattering a lens...
...other classmates move ahead. They are assigned to new rooms and teachers, and usually grouped with children of similar ages, while they begin a special remedial course of study that focuses on basic reading, writing and math. The system also offers as a combined incentive and consolation something called "partial promotion." A student who has partially mastered third grade work, for example, may be half-promoted to a grade called...