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...Borges and Us" provides an audience just beginning to appreciate Borges' inventive "fictions" and enchanting Norton lectures with an introduction to the remarkable personality behind the magic. Wilson's technique is to remain unobtrusive, to give Borges free rein. The two quickly establish a lively, productive rapport (Wilson: "My next question may be irrelevant." Borges: "I enjoy irrelevant questions.... The answers are irrelevant, so the questions have to be irrelevant also...
...Route 9. Basically a post for interdicting Communist movement into the South and for overseeing allied patrols into nearby Laos, Lang Vei was defended by some 400 South Vietnamese and Montagnard irregulars and 24 Green Berets, operating out of a deeply dug bunker made of three feet of rein forced concrete and two-inch steel plate, complete with its own ventilation system. As much as any place can be in Viet Nam, it seemed an ideal outpost, immune to artillery attack and so situated that ground troops would form a carpet of corpses if they dared attack up its hillside...
Individual departments will decide whether concentrators under their jurisdiction will be able to count pass-fail courses toward degree requirements. Neither Princeton nor Brown allows students to use pass-fail this way, and there is little reason to believe that Harvard departments will give students free rein. Science departments with sequential courses will probably be especially reluctant to let students use pass-fail within their field. And almost every department is likely to require that its basic course be taken with a grade by concentrators...
...payroll, thus saving about $1,000,000 a year that would normally be lost to embezzlers. It has fired 40,000 relatives and friends of politicians from the bloated bureaucracy. And, at the urging of international monetary authorities, it has made some basic economic reforms, including a tight rein on credit and devaluation of the Congolese currency...
Lipset farms out the money he receives any way he sees fit. He claims that he is given free rein to support any work that he feels is relevant to the project. He said in an interview last week that he is not required to consult the Air Force; all he must tell them is what he told them when he first applied for the money--that his work will increase the general level of knowledge...