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Most of the tapestries show upward movement as a metaphor for lightness and hope, especially in “I Wish to Be Like the Wind,” where a face and reaching hands burst out of an upward rising spiral. This tapestry is set to a poem which reads as a direct response to the disillusionment of the Shining Path years...
...bring the price of coursepacks down at Harvard. We must call upon HPPS and the other groups that produce sourcebooks to help students take advantage of fair use. Sourcebooks should be sold in three ring binders, rather than bound by tape or spiral, so students can more easily share and copy. Departments should make available copies of the compiled sourcebooks completely unbound and printed on single sided sheets. The University, or perhaps the Undergraduate Council, should buy extra high-volume hopper-fed photocopiers, which the students could use to make their own copies of the sourcebook material...
...harder to introduce tough reform measures. "They are writing off loans, but the bad loans are growing faster," says C. Fred Bergsten, director of the Institute for International Economics in Washington. "That feeds a lack of confidence that brings more nonperforming loans--and that is a death spiral...
...Press; 180 pages; $23) doesn't directly address terrorism's latest face, as it was written before 9/11. But for newcomers to the subject, Lewis' brisk explication of the tense dynamic between Islam and the West offers a historical case for what he calls the Muslim world's "downward spiral of hate and spite, rage and self-pity, poverty and oppression...
More takes the traditional women's magazine recipe of celebrities, health, beauty and fashion, seasons it with travel and investment tips and ages it 20 years. Recent issues have investigated an upward spiral in age-discrimination suits, explored Vietnam War memories from the perspective of a veteran's wife and profiled Linda Fairstein, 54, a New York City sex-crime prosecutor who writes mystery novels...