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Regular visitors to the monastery usually stress the spiritual nourishment they receive from the rhythm of the monastery and its monks. Kimberly Patton '80, began attending services at the monastery last spring. For her, daily visits provide a framework to a life that once seemed fragmented. According to her, "the orderedness of their life is very different from the way students live their lives. To go to a place with a set schedule revolving around worship of God is a powerful experience. I was particularly attracted to the Eucharist and the chanting and singing. The forms are very beautiful...
...only life Sam Walker had ever known. Born at West Point, he was the son of General Walton H. ("Bulldog") Walker, who fought across Europe under George Patton and died in a 1950 jeep accident while commanding the Eighth Army in Korea. Sam Walker became an expert infantryman, master parachutist, and even learned to pilot a helicopter...
...awakes at 4:30 a.m. Carter wakes up, too, decides to go right to work. He telephones Brzezinski and asks security adviser to bring over some papers. The pace is tiring everybody. During nightly movies, Begin keeps falling asleep, once while watching An Unmarried Woman. At a showing of Patton, Weizman makes a graphic point: "If this thing falls apart, this is what we're going to have?another war." On this day conference almost does fall apart. Carter shuttles between Israelis and Sadat, who is emotional, one minute hopeful, the next gloomy. Despite Carter's reassurances that...
...Patton says Soc Sci 174 was "one of the last courses I took at Harvard, and finally someone is saying let's do something about it--take the theory the Government Department puts out, and apply it to the real world...
...Bruce Patton '77, who took the course last year and is now its head sectionman, says Fisher recognized these problems and has tried to correct them this time around. Patton and four other students spent much of the summer working with Fisher to revise and improve the course. The syllabus was expanded, the reading list changed, the problem sets clarified and the discussion sections discarded in favor of a second Fisher lecture each week. Patton says the weaknesses last year--the first time the course was offered--stemmed from organizational problems, not from inherent flaws in Fisher's negotiating theory...