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President Bok decided Friday that he would not take immediate action to improve campus security in the aftermath of a recent rape, but would instead refer student suggestions to a "standing committee" which is now being formed...
...Counter writes: "According to authorities these practices among remote African tribes have long since been outlawed by African governments." Who are these authorities? A resolution was passed in Lusaka by women delegates from 42 African countries condemning infibulation. I refer to the address presented at the 1979 Conference for Women in Lusaka, by the delegate from Somalia, Mrs. Edna Ismael: "Female circumcision ranks high in the list of preventable health hazards and affects almost 100 per cent of the female population of Somalia, Sudan and Djibouti, and to a lesser extent the females of Southern Egypt, Chad, Nigeria, Senegal, Kenya...
...unequal people equal." His philosophical cards on the table, Wilkinson's job becomes easier--his only remaining task is to suggest the future course of public policy. His program includes the shooting of Cuban refugees in the water, voting for Ronald Reagan, and putting pressure on President Carter to refer to Blacks as "niggers" in public...
...Remington SL3, often admitting that somehow it is not performing up to par, despite the technological conveniences it manifests. Only once does he shift the blame for Still Life to himself, only once does he acknowledge the lone clear message conveyed by his prose--only once does he refer to himself as "an underdeveloped novelist with an overdeveloped typewriter." Yet he does take the poor machine out of it agony for the last half of the epilogue; he writes the "mystery of love" section in longhand. At least that last desperate gesture lends credence to his first sentence--emphatically...
...clipped. Percy, it seems, has an aversion to that durable punctuation standard, the quotation mark, and so throughout his novel its's difficult to follow who's saying what. Furthermore, he's acquired the annoying mannerism of changing speaker without warning or using the same pronoun successively to refer to different people. There are passages that becomes completely unintelligible...