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...Yard two springs ago was a 16-foot-high ivory tower symbolizing the attitude of the ruling University elite towards students and society. The town itself was named the "Open University" to stand, in the words of one of its builders, "as an ideal toward which Harvard should strive." "Democracy--at Harvard and South Africa," he wrote in The Crimson at the time, "is at the core of the divestment struggle...
Humans are under constant siege by these voracious adversaries. Germs of every description strive tirelessly to invade the comfortably warm and bountiful body, entering through the skin or by way of the eyes, nose, ears and mouth. Fortunately for man's survival, most of them fail in their assault. They are repelled by the tough barrier of the skin, overcome by the natural pesticides in sweat, saliva and tears, dissolved by stomach acids or trapped in the sticky mucus of the nose or throat before being expelled by a sneeze or a cough. But the organisms are extraordinarily persistent...
...director and screenwriter, Lee ventures where no man has been--he probes the problems of intra-racism in the Black community and the difference between the privileged and the underprivileged. These divisions are clearly demonstrated in the movie by the split between the Mission College students who strive to emulate the larger white society and those who accentuate the look and essence of their Blackness...
...frenzies. Whether it be through endless, meaningless commentary on unimportant happenings in the early stages of the Democratic primary, or in gloss, hype, and up-close-and-personal interviews with sports celebrities who weren't famous yesterday and won't be tomorrow, every four years the national media must strive after a task worthy of the Creator himself: the creation of something out of nothingness...
...economy out of a recession in 1988. After five years of economic expansion, American consumers may begin to slow their spending, especially in the wake of October's stock crash. But foreign demand for U.S. goods could keep American factories humming and boost capital spending as companies strive to increase their production. Many economists think the U.S. is on the verge of becoming the sort of export- driven economy that West Germany and Japan have been over the past quarter- century...