Word: spent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Aren't there better ways for the University to spend its--or more likely its students'--money than on a minimall? If such money is going to be raised, wouldn't it be better spent on more financial aid or the creation of a University-sponsored study-abroad program, than on xerox machines or drug stores? How about making sure that all houses, and not just a select few, are wheelchair-accessible...
Ahmad Shah Massoud, 35, a onetime engineering student at the Soviet Polytechnic Institute in Kabul, has spent the past nine years molding the mujahedin in Afghanistan's northeast into what is widely considered the country's most effective guerrilla formation. Last May Massoud's men, who owe allegiance to Jamiat-i-Islami, one of the seven mujahedin parties based across the border in Pakistan, watched in triumph as the last Soviet and Afghan government troops retreated from the Panjshir...
Nina Klose '90, who acted as interpreter forthe forum and spent three years living in theSoviet Union, cited the new informal groups andrecent election reform proposals as evidence thatthe Soviet Union is becoming more democratic...
...August, Sontag spent a long week at a hospital bedside watching helplessly as the epidemic claimed another friend. "It's like a nightmare," she says. The new book, however, is intended to go beyond sympathy and outrage. "What interested me was what AIDS means for the way people think about illness," she explains. "One way for people to defend themselves against what is painful and frustrating in modern life is to have fantasies of disaster. AIDS is the latest script of that disaster...
Sontag recalls herself as "a psychologically abandoned child." Until she was six, she and her younger sister were raised mostly by aunts, in the New York area. Her parents, Polish Jews who came to the U.S. while young, spent most of their time in China, where her father was a fur trader. After his death there from tuberculosis, her mother returned to the U.S. and remarried. (Sontag uses her stepfather's last name.) In time, the new family ended up living in Canoga Park, near Los Angeles, though it would be truer to say that Sontag lived in books...