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...disagree with James Allen Johnson's plea for a Harvard Square McDonald's (Opinion, March 9), invoking McDonald's "right" to be here. John-son unfairly accuses those who are anti-corporate-chain-monolith of being anti-proletariat. Those who fight McDonald's can care about the local working class...
...Woodring, Acting Secretary Edison of the Navy. Acting Secretary of the Treasury John Hanes was roused. Lights went on in all Washington's key executive offices. Before breakfast time, the President was ready with the only gesture he could think of in the face of world disaster: a plea to Germany, Poland, Britain, France, Italy to refrain from bombing "open" cities and noncombatants. Within a few hours the heads of all these nations replied, in a chorus that sounded sickeningly cynical, however truly meant: they would each do as Mr. Roosevelt suggested so long as their antagonists did likewise. Mussolini...
...Harvard vocabulary. In this week's plea for our money, Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles noted that "nearly 70 percent [of undergraduates] have some form of aid, such as loans and jobs." We at Dartboard have gotten used to saying we are concentrators (not majors), who eat in dining halls (not cafeterias). But discovering that we "receive aid" instead of "get paid" for our jobs is going a bit too far. The Financial Aid office helped not a whit in finding Dartboard's non-work study, term-time job making Xeroxes and running errands for $6.50 an hour...
...spare a thought for the heartfelt plea of Louis, 9, of New Hampshire, who knew the poll numbers were against him, but feared the worst: "I think we should not bomb Iraq. If we start a war we could possibly die. If we die, millions of innocent kids would not be parents. Many of my classmates want to bomb Iraq, while...
Making an adamant plea for an end to Puerto Rico's status as a common-wealth of the United States, Governor Pedro Rossello of Puerto Rico spoke last night before a packed audience at the ARCO Forum at the Institute of Politics...