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...formed an unusual coalition that gives new meaning to the phrase City of Brotherly Love. The mayor has brought them all together by pushing for approval at the Nov. 7 election of a change in the city's charter that would allow him to run for a third term next year. His opponents include the Black United Front Against Charter Change, the liberal Committee to Protect the Charter and the businessmen's Committee for the Defense of the Charter. Says Banker R. Stuart Rauch Jr.: "Rizzo is a master at fragmenting the opposition...
Some officers, on the other hand, fret about women soldiers' time lost because of menstruation, pregnancies and abortions. Pentagon statistics, however, indicate that healthy women are very rarely incapacitated by menstruation and that abortions are comparable to minor illnesses, averaging 4.8 days of leave. Full-term pregnancies do cost the military an average of 105 days, but only about 8% of the women get pregnant in any given year. Besides, while women need more time off for gynecological reasons, men lose 10% more time because of drinking, 80% more time because of drug abuse, and have an AWOL rate...
...widespread return of basic skills requirements like math, languages and writing, prompts some observers to say colleges are moving "back to basics." Roderic B. Park '53, dean and provost of the College of Letters and Sciences at Berkeley, says educators dislike the term "back to basics" because "it implies that you have joined a movement of dinosaurs who don't have modern liberal education in mind. It's a movement that extends from good intentions to some very conservative ideas." Nevertheless, with high schools providing increasingly uneven preparation, college faculties are realizing they must teach students "with the short attention...
...interested only in the reserve books just before midyears and finals. It gets much more hectic than normal here during both times, but especially during midyears." Corliss has no explanation for this increased winter studying, other than that perhaps January's bad weather or more papers in the fall term force students to hit the books...
Because of that designation the countries cannot get long-term loans, and hence are unable to cope with the problems of poverty, health and education that affect them all, Valdez said...