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Harvard lobbyists will be busy as bees on Capitol Hill this spring trying to stave off massive education aid cuts proposed this winter by President Reagan...
Death is the antithesis of time, since death means infinite stopping, while time means infinite motion. It may be that we are willingly caught up in time because we seek to stave off death. But the effort is self-defeating if life begins to feel like death, if in fact nothing seems worth dying for. All our familiar complaints about the lack of heroism in modern life may be traced to our servitude to time. Save time, beat the clock. The only real way a clock may be beaten is to pay no attention to it, to rediscover privacy, cling...
...advice. But by Thursday night, fires of vengeance were burning everywhere. While police looked the other way, vigilante bands attacked Sikhs, burned their beards, destroyed their homes or shops, then moved on to look for more. "You know how I feel," said a Hindu armed with an iron stave on a Delhi street. "I want to kill Sikhs. I want to see Sikh blood on the streets." Whole blocks of Sikh dwellings were gutted. In one slum area of the capital, a Hindu mob was reported to have slaughtered 94 Sikhs with knives and iron bars. Said a civil servant...
...that over the fiscal near, the average value of the standard and Poors index of 500 stocks tell 4.8 percent and bounds dropped roughly 6 percent in response, the University moved heavily out of equities and bonds into "cash" investments-like 90 day Treasury bills but not enough to stave off losses...
Shamie, who is within striking distance of Kerry in the bitterly fought Senate race, is now seen as the Republican Party's best chance to gain a seat away from the Democrats and to stave off expected gains by the opposition party...