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Before class, Sand slipped into rooms and sprawled his campaign message onto all the blackboards immediately beneath the top boards. When professors elevated the top board, Sand's campaign slogan emerged before students' eyes...
...David Sand, a first-year Business School student, sees the job as "an ongoing business, with the same kinds of problems as any business organization. It would be a good experience for me," he said yesterday...
...reincarnated over trillions of years, which meant that there were aeons of engrams to be erased. For Scientologists, truth became stranger than science fiction. Hubbard's explanation of why someone might have difficulty crying: he was once a primordial clam whose water ducts had been clogged with sand...
Posters plastered all over the picturesque fishing port of New Bedford, Mass., proclaim: THE SOVIET FISHING FLEET IS TWELVE MILES OFF OUR COAST AND SUCKING UP EVERYTHING THAT SWIMS, CRAWLS OR HIDES IN THE SAND. Beneath ominous-looking silhouettes of Russian trawlers, the posters urge: SUPPORT THE 200-MILE FISHING LIMIT. Congress is now getting the message. This week both House and Senate are expected to pass a bill extending U.S. jurisdiction over coastal waters from its present twelve miles to 200 miles; President Ford's signature is likely. Under the bill, which will take effect next March...
...strain of finding a common bond between Erica Jong and Elizabeth Barrett Browning forces Moers into some ingenious critical parlor games. Setting the tone in her opening chapter, ("My tale is one of triumph"), Moers presents a cloying portrait of George Sand as a scribbling SuperMom-prototype of the "efficient, versatile, overworked modern mother." The need to establish distinctly female traditions also leads to unabashed juggling of literary records. It makes no sense for a critic who has written intelligently about Thackeray and Dickens in previous books to claim that illiteracy is "plainly a woman's theme" or that...