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...exists only for me." It's a mix of Descartes' metaphysics and Tom Stoppard's humor. "If so," he jokes, "it's sure going well for me, I must admit." He laughs; his eyes sparkle. Here's something machines can't do (I don't think): giggle about their plight in the cosmos, crack themselves up, have...
...plight of the Zairian refugees should not compel only certain geographic or ethnic groups on campus to act. In recent weeks, the U.S. has faltered in its support of a relief package to Zairian refugees. Perhaps President Clinton's hesitancy and apathy in this matter could have been reversed by a few hundred informed letters from concerned college students. Unfortunately, political refugees in Zaire pale in importance among Harvard students to poor Lowell House residents who must somehow survive three years without a frozen yogurt machine...
However, the efforts of a small number of activists in the U.S. and abroad have finally succeeded in drawing attention to the plight of the people of East Timor, who are still terrorized by a cruel occupying force. The Nobel Peace Prizes further pushed this issue onto the international agenda; the U.S. media has been paying more attention to East Timor lately as well. In the last few weeks, at least two editorials about East Timor have appeared on the oped page of The New York Times, including one yesterday by Carlos Ximenes Belo, the Catholic bishop of East Timor...
...promise of Reagan's America along the way and has come to put on a harsher face. If we Republicans are ever to control both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue, we must learn to communicate that we are the party of optimism and that we truly care about the plight of children in the inner cities, the poor who work but can't seem to get ahead and the single mothers working two jobs to make ends meet...
...more common is the plight of a skater like Trevor Allman, who could qualify as college hockey's version of the journeyman. The freshman forward has played on eight separate line combinations and with nine different Crimson forwards--and you wonder why it might have taken until Sunday night for him to pick up his first two assists of the season...