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...Guinier, much uncertainty remains about his position at Harvard. He is clearly not the most popular man with the Faculty, and he will probably not be able to retain the chairmanship of Afro Department very much longer. Whether Guinier will want to remain at Harvard after a new chairman is named remains a subject for speculation...
...become a momentary smoke, with millions dead among unparalleled destruction. One reason for their fears was rational enough: all Japan has recently experienced unusual earthquake activity. Tokyo itself has felt 29 minor earthquake jolts this year - two last week. The other reason is superstitious: even the most modernized Japanese retain a sneaking regard for the traditional concept of tembatsu (heavenly punishment), which teaches that good times must be followed by disaster. No one can deny that Japan has been having fantastically good times...
...aerospace science exam question read, "The human mind is a wonderful organism. It has four abilities. The first two enable us to 'know things.' These are the ability [sic] to-----and to-----. Our other two mental abilities enable us to 'use the knowledge we perceive and retain." These are the ability...
...called golf pollution is something altogether imagined or emotional," says Norio Nomura, an official at the Ministry of Construction in Tokyo. "When the most precious commodity in Japan-land-gets grabbed up fast, the people react sharply and emotionally." Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka, a devoted golfer, adds: "Golf courses retain greenery. Japan needs more greenery and more golf courses...
...boulevards are busy and complex. Only in a few places do they retain a processional grandeur: down the combined lengths of the Bismarck Strasse and the Strasse of the 17th of June the streetlights strain to curve out from the edge of the surrounding Tiergarten forest to cover the width. Between avenues, the marble base of the Victory Column is polished and despite its war scars reflects the misty recession of lights toward the Brandenburg Gate. What look like splotches of mud on the old classical gate houses flanking the avenues reveal themselves on second glances as shell pits...