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...Silicon Valley is planning a new transit system. This spring, Santa Clara County will begin construction of 20 miles of light rail and twelve miles of new freeway. The project's $382 million price tag is modest by mass-transit standards, in part because the system does not strive to be as high-tech as the computer culture it will serve. Says Susan Wilson, chairwoman of the Santa Clara County Transit District: "We're looking for a good Chevrolet, not a Cadillac...
...hand, the Houses strive to recreate the intellectual climate of their Oxford-Cambridge parents. On the other hand, Harvard's commitment to the system--in dollars, personnel, and independence--has not kept pace with high expectations...
Throughout the campaign, candidates for the Cambridge School Committee have said they will strive to end the circus-like atmosphere that has dominated the body's proceedings for several years. If they live up to this promise, city schools, will surely run more smoothly. Many of the concerns voiced in the national debate over public education should hit home in Cambridge, and the Committee should work toward solutions to classroom problems rather than straying into personal feuds...
...what was otherwise a blot on the country's upholding of human rights ideals. National security is a consideration, but so are individual freedoms; and it would be a sad paradox to deny freedoms at home to secure ourselves against a government whose very repressiveness is what we strive to combat...
...fact, the best thing about it is the serious but never sobersided spirit in which it was made. In the first memo he wrote about the project, Writer-Director Philip Kaufman, 46, mentioned some movies he admired, such as The Searchers and The Grand Illusion, and said he would strive for their rambling, episodic quality, in which " 'truth' is found along the way." In the end, that is exactly what he achieved...