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When Held is asked to predict his friend'sfuture, he pauses. The thing is, Held says, "Joshis already one of the most successfulliberal American Jewish spiritual leaders...
April has come and gone, and those Orlandans are still watching TV the old- fashioned way. "Expectations were way overheated," admits Jim Chiddix, Time Warner Cable's technology chief. In early March, the start of the trial ! was postponed until the fourth quarter of 1994. Some outside observers predict the company will be hard pressed to make that deadline as well...
...predict South Africa will grow so strong that one day it will apply sanctions to American apartheid...I am happy Mandela is in the driver's seat there, even as black people here remain road kill...I can see the day coming when the president of south Africa will declare the racial condition of the United States, the world's richest nation, as evil, immoral and un-Christian." Boston Globe columnist Derrick Z. Jackson...
Early in the semester I told your reporter that most of my students were receiving grades in the A-/B+range. contrary to The Crimson's assertion I did not predict that this would be the ultimate disposition of the grades. Harvard Undergraduates are relative. adept at writing two page response papers and--thanks, no doubt, to the Expository Writing Program--most students in my section have acquired this skill. But the real trick is to demonstrate a comprehensive grasp of the course material...
...critics suggest that it will empower not only "legitimate" minorities, but (in a seven-seat election) any fringe dweller who can enthrall 12% of the voters -- the David Dukes as well as the Bobby Agees. Even without kooks, they fear it will create mosaic governments paralyzed by factionalism. Others predict that once minority members realize cumulative systems provide an automatic "safe seat," numerous candidates will split the vote, and the seat will disappear. Exactly that happened last year in Centre, a small town about 100 miles away, which also tried cumulativism: a black made the city council...