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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Student government: The Undergraduate Council, the University's first officially recognized student government in years, gets underway this fall, and students are scheduled to vote for representatives in October. The council will replace the pathetic student Assembly, known for its ludicrously low attendance and for one singular accomplishment: securing additional toilet paper for the River Houses...
...Student government: The Undergraduate Council, the University's first officially recognized student government in years, gets underway this fall, and students are scheduled to vote for representatives in October. The council will replace the pathetic Student Assembly, known for its ludicrously low attendance and for one singular accomplishment: securing additional toilet paper for the River Houses...
Everyone from conservative William F. Buckley to the American Civil Liberties Union argues that the emphasis must instead be shifted to what is singular about prisons, the irreplaceable nub. It is imprisonment alone that can keep predators off the streets, and that result is what the U.S. must begin chiefly seeking for its $4.5 billion a year...
...artist at 18, staring at the mirror with the same unswerving, enigmatic gaze that he would cast upon the world for the next 60-odd years of self-portraiture. By 1920 Soyer had a lithographic crayon firmly in hand. With strong, fluid strokes, he sketched a head of singular beauty: a mass of black curls resting on an inverted triangle, the faintly protruding ears pointing downward toward the chin, the eyes shrouded but intent, as always...
...razzmatazz, This Morning's first week was generally awkward and error prone. After a solemn-toned introduction to a supposed report about the economic woes of American auto manufacturers, Economics Editor Dan Cordtz delivered instead a primer on currency exchange rates. Segments on successive days ascribed the singular position of "front runner" for the 1984 Democratic presidential nomination to two men, Edward Kennedy and Walter Mondale. Both anchors made frequent if trivial mistakes: once Steve Bell even announced the time wrong. The show's other anchor, Kathleen Sullivan, who was wooed, perhaps not coincidentally, from a highly visible...