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...students, a sampling say they are encouraged. Juliette Williams, the student government association president, remembers that as Fisk grew poorer, the young scholars grew cynical. She lists the deletions from student activities, saying, "As there was less and less to do, apathy set in. But now you look up and notice, oh, there's new paint over there. You hear there's going to be a new yearbook. There hasn't been a yearbook since '81. They're actually taking pictures! Apathy is dissipating...
...from the burden of their arsenals. And even as huge forces grow less practical, many other nations are dragged into the arms competition. In 25 years the annual global outlay for arms has gone from $400 billion to $940 billion. The cost now exceeds the entire income of the poorer half of humanity...
...candidate's record over his ten years as Allston's Representative includes support for legislation changing the system of representation on the Boston City Council, an achievement that Galvin said permitted minority and poorer districts to have more of a voice in city government...
Mexican writer Elena Poniatowska's observation that "aborigines and immigrants and poorer Australians don't have much to do with the sexy, healthy, multi-orgasmic highly successful Australian woman who jog, drink cocktails and relax in their bathtubs" points out that the sexual revolution has been primarily a bourgeois one for Western audiences who can afford to dwell upon appeasing libidos instead of hunger. Emecheta claims that Western women have, in fact, undervalued themselves by staying within the capitalist framework and focusing on the need to "relearn how to be a woman." Her claim echoes other Third World feminists...
After going to the South to study desegregation and traveling to many poorer parts of the country to study children, Coles was approached in the late '60s by a former professor who asked him to become a section head. Coles agreed and eventually faced the prospect of becoming a Harvard instructor himself...