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Poles like to quip that news dispensed by the state falls into three categories: certain (obituaries), probable (the weather) and nonsensical (everything else). On May 31, however, the terse official announcement had the ring of truth: Zbigniew Bujak, a fugitive underground leader of the banned Solidarity trade-union movement, had...
Susan Minot's first novel is a way to understand the familial instinct at a ^ time when young women have other demands made on their minds and bodies. The point of view is largely that of Sophie, the second daughter, who coolly focuses on incidents that span some dozen years...
In many ways, they are the yin and yang of the American experience, poles of the national character. One is "back East," a little overbred and intellectual for a Texan's taste. The other is "out West," big and rough and physical. Massachusetts evokes Calvinism and Brahmins and John Kennedy...
At my house, there were foul poles (garden posts) and an on-deck circle with extra bats (if you swung two or more at a time, you were pretty cool). There was a home-made dugout occupied only by the "ghost runners" and even a resin bag (stuffed and clipped...
"If we allow our politics to be centered onourselves and our issues, it will be the politicsof the privileged," said Damon A. Silvers '86, aSASC member who spoke on the future of themovement. "Our present powerlessness and thefuture promise of power are the poles of studentactivism," said Silvers.