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...American wrestlers win friends in the streets of Tehran, their presence appears to be infuriating Iran's conservatives. When the Stars and Stripes drew enthusiastic cheers at the opening ceremony of an international wrestling tourney, a conservative cleric urged parliament to reject the presence of the flag "which we used to trample underfoot only last year," and led legislators in the ritual chant of "Death to America...
Princeton, Yale and Stanford are right to increase aid and right to acknowledge a serious threat to the their prestige: the growing numbers of top-notch students who opt to reject their admission offers in favor of highly ranked and significantly cheaper public universities like those in Chapel Hill, Berkeley and Ann Arbor. Now is the time for Harvard to acknowledge what it has at stake and to join Princeton, Yale and Stanford in providing better financial aid packages for its students...
...mostly inaudible performance during Week I of Presidential Sex Crisis III. Patricia Schroeder and Bella Abzug came up with tortured, self-canceling meditations on sexual harassment vs. good, wholesome, consensual sexual relationships. The National Organization for Women issued a touching call for public officials to pledge they would reject "the aphrodisiac of power" and forswear sexual contact with their office help. Apparently no one had explained to the team at NOW that the very essence of adultery is the breaking of pledges once made in good faith to nice, trusting women like themselves...
...American military officials at Italy's Aviano airbase admit that the plane, an EA-6B Prowler, was flying "well below the approved minimum altitude" when it clipped the cable car wire, sending a gondola crashing to the ground. But they reject Italian claims that the plane was six miles off its assigned flight path. Flight recorder data has been handed over to Italian investigators but the U.S. is clearly conceding at least some responsibility for the tragedy...
...Harvard's Deaf Students Reject 'Culture of Deafness'" (Feb. 2): The article was well-written and reflected the deaf students currently at Harvard. However, I hope people realize that there were deaf people that attended Harvard who considered themselves culturally deaf and are proud of it. I am one of them...