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...freedom. The script--liberally seasoned with campus allusions--relies on sexual jokes which play mostly on the naivete of the young couple ("A virgin? Is that good?") and the frustrations of everyone else. Many of these jokes hover at the borders of good taste, but given the Kirkland sponsorship of the show, the crowd finds this appealing...

Author: By David L. Yermack, | Title: Roman Revelry | 11/9/1983 | See Source »

Confronted with a collapsing economy and a mounting rebel threat, Dos Santos is not likely to renounce Soviet sponsorship of his regime. Nor is he likely to agree to South Africa's demand for a withdrawal of the Cuban troops, who help the 35,000 government soldiers and as many as 50,000 militiamen fight the UNITA guerrillas. With Angola's future uncertain, the chances of breaking southern Africa's broader diplomatic logjams seem equally remote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Angola: A Ghost of Its Former Self | 10/10/1983 | See Source »

...students wrote the pamphlets last year, with co-sponsorship by UHS and the Harvard Police Department. The project began after the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) expressed concern that a brochure on rape UHS had published since 1978 was "inadequate," co-authors Michele J. Orza '84 and Robert D. Slate '83, said...

Author: By Melinna I. Weissberg, | Title: Harvard Seeks Wider Perceptions of Rape | 10/4/1983 | See Source »

THROUGH THE WORK OF an American refugee resettlement organization, Lien and her brothers were brought to the United States a year and a half ago. Now ages 18, 19, and 25, they live under church sponsorship in a small clapboard house in a New England sea town. There are bicycles on the porch, a struggling tomato plant in the yard, bright white T-shirts on the clothesline, and a fully stocked refrigerator in the kitchen. During the summer months they bicycle everyday past candy and clothing stores to their coffee shop jobs. During the rest of the year the boys...

Author: By Margaret Y. Han, | Title: Is Ignorance Bliss? | 9/26/1983 | See Source »

...most successful refugees have had a network of relatives and friends to help cushion the shock of resettlement. Several weeks after stepping off a crowded fishing boat in Key West, Teresita Hernández, 24, came to Chicago under the sponsorship of her uncle. "At the beginning it was hard for me," she admits. But with the money she earns as a part-time clerk, Hernández has been able to rent a small studio apartment, buy a serviceable used car and enroll in classes at Northeastern Illinois University. Her goal: to become a pharmacist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Working Hard Against an Image | 9/12/1983 | See Source »

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