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Please continue your coverage of the issue, but focus your efforts on the plight of the homeless and not on the political bickering between and amongst students and administrators. Eric A. Berman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Homeless | 2/11/1986 | See Source »

Harvard can have an immediate positive impact on the plight of the homeless by flexing its not inconsiderable political muscle to lobby the City Council for the repeal of the law. Harvard, too, has a large obligation to the city's homeless...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Let's Do Something | 2/10/1986 | See Source »

...dries up, another kind of wrenching social and political retrenchment is under way among the oil producers, and the risks for world order and stability are unpredictable. If concerned countries, including the U.S., do not act, as Mexico's Silva Herzog put it, with "speed and wisdom," the deepening plight of the former petropowers may lead to upheaval...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Politics a New Game in Oil Power | 2/10/1986 | See Source »

...After hundreds of billions of dollars in poverty programs, the plight of the poor grows more painful," Reagan said. "But the waste in dollars and cents pales before the most tragic loss: the sinful waste of human spirit and potential...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reagan Hails `Great American Comeback' | 2/5/1986 | See Source »

...recurring accusation against President Ferdinand Marcos is that he, his wife Imelda and their friends have used their power to plunder the Philippines, thereby aggravating the country's economic plight. Opposition Candidate Corazon Aquino played on the issue last week, promising a thorough investigation of the Marcos family's financial dealings if she wins. "The new leadership will exert all efforts to eliminate the social cancer of graft and corruption," she declared. "What belongs to the people will be given back to the people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Charges of Hidden Wealth | 2/3/1986 | See Source »

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