Word: reading
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Bill Scheft '79 was Associate Sports Editor of The Crimson last year. He's taken his act out west and is a sportswriter for the Albany Times-Union. Unfortunately, people in Albany would rather bowl than read the Times-Union. Hence the return...
...slept nights." Later, however, she mentioned that for the first 16 hours of her captivity, she had been forced to sit in a chair with her hands tied to the armrests. It was also revealed that the hostages were not permitted to talk with one another or read newspapers. Said Maples: "We didn't know what was going...
...Forum editors' decision to distribute the text of the Wei trial spelled their downfall. After obtaining a tape recording of the 5½-hour proceedings, they first posted a transcript on democracy wall where it was read by thousands of people during the next three weeks. This limited access to the transcript was tolerated. But when it went on sale at 17? a copy the authorities evidently felt that they could not risk having it circulate throughout China. Wei, who had conducted his own defense at his trial, charged that China had scarcely changed since the ouster...
Last weekend, however, the swimming stopped. Folding chairs and activists replaced chaise lounges at poolside, and the sign outside read: "Workshop at 2:30--Fighting Corporations From the Inside." In the midst of Washington wealth, the national conference of the Democratic Agenda (DA)--a broad but shaky left-liberal coalition seeking to "set an agenda for the 1980's"--was in high gear. And after three days of meetings, plenary sessions, workshops, a luncheon and a dance, the disparate assortment of 2000 or so students, trade unionists, consumer activists, veteran '60s radicals (including former SDS and Harvard strike leader Michael...
...album liner notes complete the grim destruction of subtlety. For every cut Hubbard has written a brief description of the precise scene she wants to create with her music. It would have been preferable just to read her notes and take the tedium of the album on faith...