Word: somethingness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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I will therefore propose two resolutions, which I hope the Council will consider next fall. Passing either one would certainly alienate many students, but it would also enable the Council to tap student support and/or outrage, for a change. The first resolution reads something like this:
WERE the Council to pass something resembling the first of these proposals, students would have a central body around which to rally. Even if the second one were to pass, interest in the Council might just pique. The resolution's proponents would likely be voted out of office at the...
The first sign that something was seriously amiss came in 1966 when Wolfgang Muller, then 20, escaped from Colonia Dignidad for the third time and begged the West German embassy in Santiago not to send him back for fear he would be killed. Muller, who now lives in West Germany...
What is troubling in his work is a moral ambiguity that verges on cynicism, coupled with a high-minded tone that verges on sanctimony. In The Untouchables he claimed the authority of history to invent a fictitiously murderous Eliot Ness and, worse, a guilty plea made for Al Capone by...
Even so, the condor is not back into the woods yet. Little has been done to rectify the environmental hazards that imperiled it. "Breeding in captivity was the easy part," says William Toone, curator of birds at the San Diego park. "The hard part is doing something to control the...