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...compared the Harvard experience to an arrow and a spiral. Some students, Wilson said, will follow a straight career path like an arrow while others will have many stops and detours like a spiral...
...Dust devil!" someone yells, and a stinging, 30-ft.-high spiral of sand, sagebrush, shale bits and a lizard or two snicks up the cliffside. Everyone grabs for the gliders, fluttering half assembled and helpless an hour before launch...
Without the prospect of work, those returnees who did manage to return home have little chance of recovering what they lost. Instead they are forced to live off the goodwill of their impoverished neighbors, further hastening the downward spiral of a village already on its last legs. "Those who left and were granted asylum were the town's best people," says Gerard Phillippe, Petit-Trou's justice of the peace and the only one of the returnees who has carved out some measure of success. "They were the ones who organized the peasants and who would have...
...debacle broke new ground in the erosion of Clinton's popularity. He suffered simultaneous public mockery of both his competence (one headline writer dubbed him "Bumblin' Bill") and his conviction ("President Jell- O"). His downward spiral in popularity and his shift in positions are creating a sense of public vertigo. More than ever, Americans regard their new President with two nagging questions: Is he up to the job? and What does he stand for? Clinton must know that if he does not answer those questions soon, he may never be able to. One longtime friend who spoke with the President...
Katherine's experience on welfare threatened to push her down into a spiral of dependency and hopelessness. But she did not surrender. "I refused to give in because I had children who were dependent on me and I couldn't let them down," she says. "It was really a struggle, but I always believed in God and I knew that whatever means it took for me to survive, beyond violence, I would survive. As long as you had a job, you could make it." Eventually, she got one at a Woolworth variety store, where she still works as a clerk...