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...stop doing something that one doesn't like or asking it to do something that one thinks it should do. But the ACSR isn't about to shoot off a rocket. Imagine, the ACSR turns out to be a group charged, in the name of shareholder responsibility, with the solemn task of endlessly gathering information from obliging corporate officials. Perhaps it is high time for us to conclude that the people on the ACSR, wittingly or unwittingly, are conducting what amounts to an elaborate, if entertaining, sham. They certainly don't seem to think that there is any such thing...
...still be exam period, but somewhere out there some seniors can dream only of June, and freedom. It's time to pick a Class Day speaker again, and the 1979 Class Committee is already looking for the one person who can perfectly capture the class's emotions on that solemn...
Judging from a few of the prospective choices, though, the day might not be so solemn...
Fireworks, protests and a solemn call for peace...
...have been quick to learn, goes better with Coke. Thanks to the time difference between the capitals of the two nations, Peking got a 13-hour head start on normalization over Washington. Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing launched the New Year's Day occasion with a solemn call for world peace. As fireworks exploded outside the U.S. liaison office in Peking, Teng raised a glass of California champagne to Leonard Woodcock, the chief of the American mission, who is expected to be named the first U.S. Ambassador to the People's Republic. In an elaborate toast...