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Some Canadians thought of it as their country's doomsday scenario. The election of an English-speaking government in Ottawa would be seen by Quebeckers as a hostile rejection. Whereupon Premier Rene Levesque (pronounced Leh-vek) would immediately call a provincial referendum on a separate status for Quebec. After his Parti Quebecois legions stumped the province insisting that Quebeckers now had no choice but to entrust their future to their own government, the voters would give Levesque his mandate to present Ottawa with an ultimatum...
...coded scripts by which the inner mind seeks to work out lingering problems from childhood. These scripts help determine whom the adult will be attracted to, how the sexual partner will be dealt with, and even what sexual positions are likely to be preferred. "Sexual excitement depends on a scenario," says Stoller. "The person to be aroused is the 'writer,' who has been at work on the story line since childhood." The writer then turns director, choosing sexual partners "because they are perceived as filling the criteria already written into the role...
...scenario is chilling. China's ethnic minorities, which occupy some 60% of the nation's territory, want to break away from Peking. The inhabitants of Inner Mongolia yearn to unite with the Mongolian People's Republic and the Turkic peoples of Sinkiang with their cousins in Soviet Central Asia. "An exchange of blows," as the author puts it, "may start at any moment." When that happens, hundreds of thousands of "volunteers" on the Soviet side of the Chinese frontier will "come to the aid of [their] brothers in blood and in faith," and the Soviet authorities will...
...irony in this scenario is overwhelming. Harvard, as an institution, will abdicate its moral responsibilities twice. Today, it has the opportunity to divest, to show the world that it does have a conscience, and that it will no longer live upon profits drawn from the very lives of an oppressed people. It has not taken that position. Tomorrow, once the return on investment is seriously interrupted, the Corporation could show that helping a people towards recovery is more important than monetary gain. Instead, if Mr. Bok's arguments are followed to their logical conclusion, the Corporation probably will with-draw...
...above scenario depends, of course, on Harvard's ability to get by its remaining Ivy opponents (especially Princeton this Saturday), which might not be all that easy a task in light of the brief scare provided by the Elis. The Crimson started things off reasonably well when studly freshman attackman Norman Forbush hit his brother Bill for a goal in the first minute of play, and co-captain Jamie Egasti made it 2-0 a few minutes later with his tenth tally of the year. But before the Crimson could get any ideas about cooling out on a spring Saturday...