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Most Americans equate joining the Peace Corps with putting one's life on hold. Few would argue that the organization does not do worthwhile work in developing countries, but most people simply have neither the time nor the inclination to devote two years to working in the Third World. It's a problem that is particularly acute for those with the technical skills the Peace Corps needs most. Graduates of medical, dental and engineering schools, carrying heavy student loan debts, often feel pressure to enter the workplace as soon as possible...
...just establish a lineup. Healthy pitchers are so precious that rather than take them out entirely, he sometimes stows them in rightfield. Third Baseman Terry Pendleton has all but joined First Baseman Jack Clark on the casualty list that has made Jim Lindeman and Jose Oquendo famous. "I don't know how we got this far," Herzog keeps saying the farther they go. Their most remarkable comeback was against themselves -- rather, against the memory of the 1985 World Series. On the verge of a six-game victory over Kansas City, the Cardinals were deprived by an umpire's incorrect call...
Furthermore, Jazz Band alumni Fred Houn '79, who leads the Afro-Asian Music Ensemble and the Asian American Art Ensemble, has been working with a group of students this week in a Workshop Series entitled "Jazz Improvisation, (Third) World Culture and So-Called Performance Art." Tonight is the culminating concert. And in November, Ellis and Wynton Marsalis are coming for a two-day deluge of workshops, master classes, and discussions. In the absence of advanced Jazz courses from the Music Department, workshops like Jane Ira Bloom's and the Marsalises have to work wonders. They seem...
...crisis forced manufacturers to change tactics. To reap the benefits of lower wages along the Pacific Rim, many Japanese firms built new factories offshore. Matsushita, the world's largest consumer electronics manufacturer, makes motors in Malaysia, batteries in Indonesia and facsimile machines in Singapore. Sony plans to move one-third of its production out of Japan...
...Mazo Gonzalez were considered likelier choices. While Salinas, like De la Madrid, is favorably disposed toward Washington, he is expected to keep his distance lest he offend Mexican sensibilities. "Salinas is hardheaded enough to know that Mexico's future is bound to the U.S. and not to a tiny Third World country in Central America," says a European diplomat based in Mexico City, referring to Nicaragua. "But there has to be a little prickliness in the relationship for it to be right...