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...aides think of one day buying out any of the 130,000 settlers who would be willing to move back to more conventional communities if they were amply compensated. That might lure the estimated one-third to one-half of the settlers who have moved into the territories for pleasant scenery and lower living costs. But it would do little to remove those who live in the land they call Judea and Samaria out of religious conviction -- the burning belief that it is not just the right but the duty of Jews to occupy the entire biblical Land of Israel...
...personality, however, is what getting into the Porc is all about. A prospective member of the club needs to strike a delicate balance. One can't come on too strong--"trying hard" is used as a criticism in the book. At the same time, being boring is death. "Pleasant if dull," one club member remarked of a candidate...
...neither. According to alums, "The Slackers B" i the grandchild of a long forgotten Harvard institution, "The Gentleman's C." Before World War II, remembers Russell H. Peck '43, "there were lots of nice, pleasant, capable, wellborn folks who didn't think it was good to work too hard." These were the "gentlemen," wealthy young men for whom Harvard was simply a pleasant interlude between prep school and prominence. According to Edward M. Tuckerman '43, they were the "party boys." Mentally transported into the world of his youth, Tuckerman slips into the present tense. "They don't work hard, they...
...mainly loyal alumni," he said "But the pleasant surprise to me has been the number of very large gifts we've had from non-alumni and, in fact, from non-Americans...
Schoenhof's due to its pleasant atmosphere, interesting books, and frequent discounts, has a dedicated clientele outside of academia. The staff is friendly and helpful, always willing to turn a bookshelf inside-our to find that slim and elusive book which insists on hiding behind some heavy hardcover. As Cambridge resident Marco Calahonra, a native of Argentina, says, "It is the only place where I can find books in my language. They are more expensive than they would be in Buenos Aires, but the prices are not bad and the selection is very good...