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Ronald Dworkin, a visiting professor from Oxford University, created even more of a stir in Currier when he lived there two years ago. Dworkin taught a Moral Reasoning course with an enrollment of nearly 900, and many of the students lived in Currier. "Every day in the dinning hall, even after it closed, there were always 20 or 30 students from the course gathered around him." Herschbach remembers...
...Gregory's Girl and Local Hero. For it lacks the wayward exuberance and quirkiness of those small delights. No inexplicable motorcyclist or man in a penguin suit is permitted to wander through Director Duffell's tidy frames. Nor are any brief, enlivening emotional squalls that might stir up those placid waters. The result is rather like a nice day at the beach: nothing wrong with it, but nothing much you can remember about it either. Sheer inoffensiveness should not be enough to recommend a film; if that is one's only criterion, better to stay home...
...third of all economic production in the non-Communist world, their friendship is the most important bilateral relationship on the globe. And if it, and the alliance with South Korea, are singularly untroubled - well, all the more reason to let friends know they do not have to stir up trouble to win the attention of the U.S. - By George J. Church...
...specter of American military intervention has long been brandished by leftist governments, such as the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua, and by revolutionary movements seeking to stir anti-American sentiment. Nicaraguan newspapers last week published a list of all U.S. interventions in Central America since 1854, when the U.S. Navy destroyed the Nicaraguan port of San Juan del Norte to avenge an insult to the American minister. Until now, such propaganda seemed shopworn. "This would appear to prove everything the Sandinistas have been saying about the intentions of the U.S. here," one American official in Managua said last week. "It gives...
Analysts believe, though, that Pickens will wind up selling his stock back to Gulf at a profit, and that all the fuss will serve mainly to stir up Gulf's corporate waters...