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...arena is a money losing operation, so you need to surround it with enough development to offset the losses." Tsongas said this week...
...idea of students placing themselves in rigid ideological molds before they have the tools to make such an important decision is frightening. For even those students who have adequate knowledge to make a rational decision, is it part of Harvard liberal arts education to allow these students to surround themselves with ideologically similar people in the classroom...
...Lost Causes. (This experience inspired C. Northcote Parkinson to include in Parkinson's Law the thesis that the building of a new headquarters is invariably a symptom of institutional decay.) Very little remains of the old dream, except perhaps the peacocks still strolling serenely in the gardens that surround the palais...
...vapid joy to one of scowling horror. The joy mask gets stuck on his head. Another successful number is "The Angel," in which Marceau portrays an angel who periodically visits earth. Just when he is in the throes of embrace or of drink, heavenly music and light surround him to remind him to behave properly...
...literal end-points of that decision--the clinics--is symptomatic of an irresponsible evasion of the more complicated social conditions which have brought women to these facilities in the first place--an evasion of the fact (some might say necessity) of abortion in this society. The social circumstances which surround abortion range from broad historical and economic patterns (such as the increased role of women in the work force and the marked decrease of family size in urban industrialized societies) to those conditions which more obviously relate to abortion in the United States today (such as the inadequacy...