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...like "How's the weather down there, eh?" or "If you can push an egg roll with you nose across Weeks Bridge, you automatically get tenure." Most of the administrators were watching "Porky's" on the VCR's, and throwing hors d'ouerves at the screen. The few undergraduates present were massaging the feet of the rest of University Hall. I lifted some caviar and a forgotten cummerbund, found my date and rejoined the real party...
Perhaps the most important statements Gorbachev has made during his first two years in power concern common security. "The character of present-day weapons," he told the 27th Soviet Communist Party Congress, "leaves a country with no hope of safeguarding itself solely with military and technical means . . . Security can only be mutual . . . for the fears and anxieties of the nuclear age generate unpredictability in politics and concrete actions...
...manage the superpower rivalry successfully. Gorbachev has little to show so far for his efforts to reduce tensions with the U.S. He has been an unsparing critic of the sluggish Soviet bureaucracy, and may hope to galvanize it by negotiating directly with Reagan agreements that he can present to his subordinates as faits accomplis...
Most of the problems of present-day Africa, Mazrui suggests, can be traced to Western interlopers: from the missionaries and slave traders of early days, through the European colonialists who carved up the continent with arbitrary national borders, to capitalists who have plundered its natural resources, "often bequeathing decay rather than development." The series contains no on-camera interviews, just Mazrui's narration set against striking shots of African life and landscapes. The rhetoric is sometimes excessive ("the collective burial of a people," "Western sharks in search of a pound of flesh"). And Mazrui's approach can be annoyingly simplistic...
...next time The Crimson is looking for filler material, I suggest a public service ad rather than printing "Rise'n'Thal." Authors who criticize people for lacking "guts and class," as Rosenthal does Boggs, without bothering to present or even research the facts, are usually themselves lacking in those desired departments. Peter J. Keating...