Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...every day that some 5000-plus students gather in the Yard to demonstrate around a political issue, or that roughly 75 sleep in the rain outside Mass. Hall in order to bring their message directly to President Bok. That activism is testimony to the deeply felt convictions of a substantial portion of the campus community that Harvard's current investment policy toward South Africa is incorrect and counterproductive. Far from disappearing with the graduation of a few individuals, this pro-divestiture sentiment has persisted for more than a decade and appears to be growing. Whether or not Bok is prepared...
...variety of situations and shadings of moods. The first story of the collection and one of the best, "How to Be Other Woman," traces the tha arc of semi-clandestine relationship between a married man a woman: "After four moves, three concerts, and two and a half museums, you sleep with him. It seems the right number of cultural events," How and "Amahl and the Night Visitors A Guide to the Tenor of Love" both deal with the slow death of relationships, from the point of view respectively of the departing one and the one who's left behind...
...citizens who had formed neighborhood patrols and court-monitoring groups. Taylor also has a painful knowledge of the subject: in 1980 he was shot during an assault. The experience lingers. Says he: "For months I awakened each morning at 2, the hour I was shot, and was unable to sleep. While watching TV cop shows, I still find myself turning from the set whenever guns are fired...
Richard Nixon will no doubt sleep more easily knowing that his new dog, Brownie, barks vociferously at the first sign of a stranger. After some 17 years of round-the-clock Secret Service protection, the former President has decided to drop his guards. According to a Nixon spokesman, the gesture was made to help trim the federal deficit. As soon as he hires a private agency to take care of his security needs, America's taxpayers will be relieved of paying an estimated $3 million a year for the three shifts of agents that guard him seven days a week...
...Remaining residents stayed indoors, barricading themselves as best they could behind sandbags. The streets were deserted, except for a noisy wedding party that drove, incongruously, through the city one day singing raucously and thumping on drums. Every hour three or four shells came crashing in. "It's hard to sleep," complained one woman. "Last night I slept for only two hours. We just stayed up and talked...