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...strategic Khorramshahr, scene of the heaviest fighting, where after uninterrupted artillery bombardment, elite Iraqi special forces continued to pour in against Iranian Revolutionary Guards and the arriving Iranian regulars...
Such portents of intellectual ill-health pour from the 192 pages of The Humanities in American Life (University of California Press; $12.50). The book will be issued this week by a 32-member commission funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and chaired by the foundation's new president, Richard W. Lyman. The commissioners (a dean's list of scholars, including the presidents of Yale, Smith, Chicago and Tulane) regard the humanities as more than some knowledge about language, history, art and philosophy. They credit the humanities with helping people make critical judgments about ethics and social policy, understand diverse...
...words were "an overstatement," Presidential Spokesman Jody Powell was not about to sound retreat. As the presidential entourage prepared to leave California for Oregon, Powell boarded the press plane. "Any questions?" he asked. "War and peace!" someone shouted. "Tolstoy," Powell retorted. But then, with careful calculation, he proceeded to pour a little water on the fire with one hand, while adding fuel with the other. Said he: "We have absolutely no apologies to make for raising that issue and for asking Governor Reagan to explain the numerous occasions over the past several years upon which he has advocated...
Vance is even more concerned about the future. He fears that the ground water beneath the sandy soil has been polluted, and this will show up later in wells. "It's a perfect setup," he says. "We think what they did with some of the chemicals was just pour 'em out on the ground. Glub, glub, glub." When state and local officials failed to get results, the federal EPA declared a water emergency and took over the cleanup chore. So far, it has spent nearly $1 million and estimates that complete removal of all hazardous wastes...
Those were the little things, the things that, together with the novelty of big-league baseball, allowed Les Expos to pour money into their farm system as fans poured through the turnstiles. A few years later, the system seems to have worked...