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...tons of food were bound for Ethiopia last week. Yet even that was far from adequate. The Ethiopian government estimates that 1.2 million metric tons of grain will be needed during the next year. Pledged shipments so far total less than one-third of that amount. Said Taffari: "I regret to say that though we are very grateful for all the international sympathy, it is now the turn of foreign governments to implement the sympathy of their citizens. The little people have given all they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ethiopia: Bare Cupboard | 12/10/1984 | See Source »

...Vinnie Miner hides a jackpot full of eccentricity behind her vencer of conventionalism. She studies literature, but the literature of children's rhymes: she does not degrade herself with snide retorts to her academic detractors, but she imagines them torturously consumed by progressive pneumonia: she lives alone without visible regret, but she imagines a dirty dog Fido, or Self-Pity, as her constant companion. And now Vinnie, ahem, Professor Vinnie Miner, who wouldn't even lower herself to see the musical Oklahoma, finds herself making love to a hoky sanitation engineer from Fulsa...

Author: By Clark J. Freshmen, | Title: Why Do Intellectuals Fall in Love? | 11/30/1984 | See Source »

...third time that Lecce fell in the first round, to his knees, seemed a delayed response to a hard blow to the spirit. Lecce immediately announced his retirement. "This was going to be my last fight anyway," he said without regret, only a little embarrassed after the T.K.O. Commending Taylor, "a good technician," Lecce confessed he had been unable to rouse any prefight bile. "Like everyone else I was very proud of these guys," he said softly, and by then the pipes were calling Evander Holyfield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Planting Gold in the Garden | 11/26/1984 | See Source »

...regret that the stopping of the two students occurred." Dean Marry D Upton wrote in a notice printed in yesterday's issue of the Adviser, a week law school publication...

Author: By David S. Hilzenrath, | Title: Law Dean 'Regrets' Action by Police | 11/16/1984 | See Source »

...Dean of Students at the law School yesterday announced her "regret" about an October 30 incident in which University Police stopped two Black students to check their identification cards...

Author: By David S. Hilzenrath, | Title: Law Dean 'Regrets' Action by Police | 11/16/1984 | See Source »

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