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...reverse image of their own history, and acknowledge the need for justice. Their dilemma may be insoluble, but whatever answer the future will provide, as one farmer puts it, is "waiting in the shadows." Barbara Villet's unique and grieving work illuminates those shadows sufficiently to prompt sympathy, and to engender hope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Notable: Dec. 6, 1982 | 12/6/1982 | See Source »

Members of the committee said that the 10-member group would continue its exclusively to prompt open, informal discussion hindered by overly inquisitive members of the press and large groups of students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Keeping Track . . . | 12/4/1982 | See Source »

Additionally, new interest in sororities and the growing membership in the four Traternities reintroduced to the campus last spring might prompt the university to reconsider its present policy of banning official recognition to the Greek societies, said Karen Tilbor, assistant dean of student affairs...

Author: By Compiled FROM College newspapers, | Title: Princeton Sorority | 12/4/1982 | See Source »

Normally, a 45-7 blowout wouldn't prompt this sort of reaction, but for the Crimson partisans in the crowd of 40,000, and the Harvard players themselves, this game represented a piece of history and a little bit of vindication...

Author: By Gwen Knapp, | Title: Getting Back | 11/22/1982 | See Source »

...that any battlefield nuclear exchange could be limited. (NATO's tactical nuclear weapons are supposed to offset the Soviets' 2.6-to-l advantage in tanks and other conventional weapons.) The MX missile, the bishops say, might be destabilizing; since it threatens the Soviets' missiles, it could prompt Moscow to launch a pre-emptive strike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Blast from the Bishops | 11/8/1982 | See Source »

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