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Mexico is a place where worlds come and go, sometimes sinking out of sight. In the 16th century, Cortés obliterated the Aztec culture in one of history's more thorough conquests. But 200 years before that, the Aztecs had built their own civilization near the ruins of an earlier, forgotten people. To this day, Mexicans are haunted by the ever present fear of still another apocalypse, and there is enough bad news in their economy at present to keep the specter alive...
...Undergraduate Council the product of two years of thorough review of student governance, held its first elections and drew more candidates and more voters than in any student race in recent years. The body's centralization and its $55,000 budget--two features which the previous student assembly lucked--contributed to student interest. A few weeks later, Michael G. Coluntuons '83, a campus gay rights leader was elected the council's first chairman. (For an analysis of the Council's first year, see page...
...empty show of freedom: these assemblies had no real power. Indeed, we have here a small-scale illustration of the way in which governments of a wholly despotic order can assimilate some of the features of the most thorough-paced democracy... --Tocqueville (The Ancien Regime and the French Revolution...
...Klieman set out to polish her client's image. She ate breakfast with him in the court cafeteria, so members of the jury could spot them chatting and relaxing. In the courtroom she touched him constantly and allowed him to carry her briefcase. Coupling this effort with a thorough defense, she won an acquittal. Credibility is critical, says the once and still actress. "You have to be able to get along with people at all levels. I have understood that there are different roles that you have to play." She pauses for a moment. "And they all better appear...
...experimenter," says James Plaut '33, the original director of the ICA, "but he's the right kind of experimenter. He approaches things with great enthusiasm, but also with thorough knowledge and great calm." Linda Stux, owner and director of the Stux Gallery on Newbury St., echoes those sentiments. "The ICA has changed tremendously," she says. "Ross is very accessible and open-minded, and he's using the ICA to focus on the good artists here in Boston. His energy level is so high, it's contagious. There's a real feeling that something is happening in Boston, the art scene...