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...years ago the drive through the county was probably lovely. The winding country roads, however, are now marred by small suburban houses. Mobile homes clutter the farmland, sheltering farmers' married children who can't afford a house of their own, or old people who can't pay to repair the dilapidated houses their fathers, grandfathers and great-grandfathers lived...
...fierce cold spell that beset Cambridge and the entire Northeast over the past week left some students shivering in their rooms, as Buildings and Grounds (B & G) teams worked overtime to repair burst pipes and restore heating to affected buildings across the University...
...open a dialogue with the Khomeini forces. U.S. diplomats have initiated contacts with a number of the Ayatullah's key aides, both in France and Iran. By and large, they have been well received by Khomeini's representatives, who have stressed that it was not too late to repair relations between the Shilte leader and the U.S. Mehdi Bazargan, a Khomeini adviser in Tehran with broad political experience who is often mentioned as a potential government leader, emphasized to U.S. officials recently that a beneficial working relationship is "most definitely possible" with Washington. The crucial factor, he insists, is that...
...were also the years when the volatile Sihanouk brilliantly maintained his balancing act of keeping Cambodia neutral. "He got the U.S. to build a four-lane highway, to the port of Kompong Som," recalls Wilde, "and when the monsoons washed parts of it away, he got the Russians to repair it. He delighted in inviting the diplomatic corps to help build irrigation projects. Every time he dug up a bit of earth at one of those ceremonies, the peasants would catch it, for he was sacred and so was everything he touched...
...long as the CRR is designed as a political disciplinary committee no amount of reform will repair its basic flaw. There is no place in an academic community for an institution designed to control expression. Until the Faculty repudiates the very concept of such an institution, no student should break the reinstated boycott...