Word: reade
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prophylactics during sex, and continues to provide free sterilized needles to drug addicts. In Britain, where 750 AIDS cases had been reported by last month, the government last November allocated $32 million to produce a blitz of warnings and advice. Billboards were erected across the country that read AIDS: DON'T DIE OF IGNORANCE. Now, however, the London government has begun to question its approach. A recent study has concluded that the campaign needlessly raised general anxieties about AIDS but missed those individuals in population groups at high risk. Later this month the British government will launch another effort aimed...
...French citizen and the son of a Resistance fighter. I was appalled to read that there is concern about grouping the Jewish victims together with the Resistance fighters. Barbie killed, tortured and deported many non-Jewish French in the same cruel manner as he did the Jews...
Takemi Ueno's junior-year tutor in History and Literature, graduate student Leslie Choquette '78, tells an interesting story about their initial meeting in September 1985. Having assigned French historian Georges LeFebrve's 600-plus page biography of Napoleon as the first week's reading, Choquette fully expected Ueno to arrive shell-shocked, as had all of her previous tutees. Not so Ueno. Although the modus vivendi of the assignment had been to encourage students "to learn how to skim, to pick and choose," Ueno walked into tutorial, obviously having read and absorbed the entire work, and inquired...
Gary Edwards, director of the Washington-based Ethics Resource Center say that part of the problem lies in the culture itself, which they say bolsters certain types of unethical behavior. "There is a paradigm of unethical conduct in large organizations," he says. "You can read it off the culture of the organization...
...this madcap adventure came to a brutal halt right before spring break--the day we received our housing assignments. I read the notice on my doorstep. It said I had been assigned to Cabot House for the next three years or 30,000 miles of shuttle bus rides, whichever came first...