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...prison, they are old at age 20. Because so many of the rebels, 406 of them, are locked in the H-shaped blocks of the Maze, they now believe they must win their war inside the prison, and that helps explain their astonishing defiance. But questions about them persist. Why are they so willing to starve themselves? How do they stand the pain? Are they afraid...
...will that belief persist after the budget cuts begin to bite, as they certainly will? Said O'Neill, who was in Massachusetts playing golf last week: "Reagan's coalition slipped from 63 Democrats [who voted the President's way on an early budget resolution] to 29, and he had to give tangible goods to get them. He'll slip a hell of a lot further before he's done...
Nonetheless, cocaine may be taking its toll. Authoritative reports persist of recording sessions that have to be scrapped because of spaced-out musicians, and of movie shoots that are disrupted because members of the cast or crew are under the influence. According to a member of the Heaven's Gate crew, thousands of dollars' worth of coke was being sent up to the Montana location from Hollywood regularly from July to November...
...Undergraduate Life (CHUL) who proposed the non-discrimination policy, says. "We had some very strong leaders and a nucleus of 'very out,' politically-aware people and--starting this year--the issues." Schatz offers a third factor to explain both the extent of the movement and its ability to persist despite the intransigence and sometimes outright hostility of University officials and undergraduates. "I think the reason our movement is so successful is that gay students feel such a real, urgent and personal need for support." Contrasting gay activism with the quick rise and fall of the South African Solidarity Committee...
...University, and entitled, "Technology Transfer at Harvard University." Beginning with some talk of technology transfer in general, the memo equated the process with the specific Ptashne venture. Ending with a list of pros and cons concerning the proposal, the memo reinforced a widespread fallacy which sources say continues to persist: that the drawbacks of the Ptashne case constitute the hazards of all technology transfer...