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Grzegorz Piotrowski, the cashiered secret-police captain who was in turn arrogant and stony-faced during the six-week trial, finally broke down and wept last week. Moments before, Judge Artur Kujawa had sentenced Piotrowski to 25 years in prison for the brutal murder of Father Jerzy Popieluszko. As Kujawa dryly explained his conduct of the trial, Piotrowski dropped his head to the wooden railing of the dock and wept...
Students organized the boycott of classes last week to express their desire for a settlement of the six-week old strike by workers including Yale's clerical, technical and food services employees...
...teams of Green Berets sent down from Fort Bragg, N.C., are working to change all that. By the end of the month they will have completed their second six-week course and finished training some 80 men from each of the six islands in skills like map reading, conducting basic field operations and using the new U.S. weapons. Most of the graduates will become part of the Caribbean Peace-keeping Force, which could eventually replace the 300 U.S. troops still serving in Grenada...
Reversing a policy which banned ROTC from campus in response to student riots in the 1960s, the student-faculty Committee on College Life last spring gave Friends of ROTC recognition as a Harvard-Radcliffe group following a six-week drive by several ROTC students...
Considering the philosophical, pedagogical and financial problems ahead, the supposed computer revolution in schools seems barely under way. "What you have now," says Alan Kay, chief scientist at Atari, "is a bunch of people attempting to teach violin who have had a six-week course in what the violin is and who have never heard violin music before...