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DIED. JERRY STERNER, 62, playwright who penned the 1989 off-Broadway hit Other People's Money; of a heart attack; in New York City. Back when the New York subway cost 15[cents] to ride, Sterner worked the graveyard shift as a token seller. During nearly six years manning his booth, he wrote seven plays...
...Americans freed, Bush's inclination to slap back at their jailers will still be checked by the $116 billion in annual trade between the two countries. "It in some sense confirms that this is a complicated relationship, a very complex relationship," admits a senior White House adviser. Bush's sterner remarks regarding China in the Rose Garden last Thursday?after the crew had been released?are closer to his true feelings about that country. But in his speech, he clearly exempted the use of trade as a weapon of retaliation. That's a disappointment to one audience the remarks were...
...Americans freed, Bush's inclination to slap back at their jailers will still be checked by the $116 billion in annual trade between the two countries. "It in some sense confirms that this is a complicated relationship, a very complex relationship," admits a senior White House adviser. Bush's sterner remarks regarding China in the Rose Garden last Thursday--after the crew had been released--are closer to his true feelings about that country. But in his speech, he clearly exempted the use of trade as a weapon of retaliation. That's a disappointment to one audience the remarks were...
...cursed by it--achingly aware, as any disabled child must be, of the things everyone else takes for granted but which he is forbidden. In the film's most passionate moment, this insightful boy cries out to God to explain why he is sightless. But the lad has even sterner tests in store...
...real world does occasionally intrude on campus, though. After a several-year lull in student protest, activism roared back this spring when a three-part rally descended on University Hall calling for a living wages, an end to sweatshop-produced goods and sterner protections against rape (two students were recently dismissed from the College after pleading guilty to sexual assault). Curmudgeonly professor Harvey C. Mansfield '53 called the protest "idiotic," but most are glad to see the student body shedding its recent apathy...