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While we sympathize with the plight of the B-School students, we sympathize more with the plight of Cambridge, where 25 per cent of municipal employees are scheduled to lose their jobs this spring, and Boston, where 3000 or more workers face the axe. Administrators may point to the University's autonomous each-tub-on-its-own-bottom financial system and say it would be impossible to divert B-School funds for general use. The point, though, is that there is money around the University that could be forwarded to Cambridge without decreasing the quality of education...
...condescending references to the Yale law school--one would have been enough--show the performers' academic commitments. They tell us that "Law School ain't no place to be in love," and how "This legal tutoring is really neutoring." Even if we are not reduced to sorrow over their plight, these lyrics, along with the trials and tribulations depicted in the script, afford the law students copious opportunity to wallow in self-pity...
This past weekend a group of Harvard Blacks staged probably the first public demonstration here against what they called the insensitivity of the Black Students Association (BSA) and other Black students to the plight of poor Blacks. They stood outside Currier House, where a cabaret was held in honor of Malcom X, held placards and discussed their views with those going inside. Amid the sometimes heated arguments between the demonstrators and other Blacks, an important point was raised: Harvard Blacks and specifically the BSA have made insufficient--at worst almost non-existent--efforts to help poor Blacks...
...Then he showed me his hands: 'You feel it. It's in your hands and your blood.' " Associate Editor Marguerite Johnson, who wrote the main story, and Reporter-Researcher Val Castronovo found themselves torn between admiration for Thatcher's bravado and sympathy for the plight of Britons. Says Johnson: "Thatcher's gamble has produced one of the most gripping political stories in Europe in years...
...such story, the plight of TIME Reporter Raji Samghabadi, has until now remained secret. A native of Iran who taught himself English by reading Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and T.E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Samghabadi was managing editor of an English-language daily in Tehran. In March 1979, he joined TIME'S Tehran bureau and stayed on after the magazine's correspondents were expelled at the end of that year. Because of concerns for his safety, his name has been kept out of the magazine for nearly a year. Those fears turned...