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Though Americans have reason to be grateful to the Maoris for entrusting their sacred treasures to the care of foreign museums, the tribesmen themselves take scarcely any credit for the marvels wrought by their artists over a thousand years. One traditional Maori poet declares, "The authority, the awe, the divine and the artistry,/ I inherited these gifts from my ancestors.'' -By Patricia Blake
Saturday morning, one of these stories--a true one--involved 22 players, two coaching staffs and more than a thousand fans. This was the story of an athletic contest, a men's soccer game between Columbia and Harvard, which ended 90 minutes after it began, and which saw some of its protagonists--those from Columbia--leave the pitch happy because they had scored three goals, and the others-from Harvard-leaving not to happy because they hadn't scored...
...coal board's hard line proposal to close down twenty pits, thereby eliminating twenty thousand jobs, that precipitated the current strike. The NCB claims that the pits are virtually spent, and therefore inefficient to mine...
Chanting "Ronald Reagan He's No Good. Send Him Back To Hollywood," almost a thousand people camped out along Dallas' Trinity River to protest the Republican's policies. The protests organized by ACORN--a national group of neighborhood groups in poor areas--were not the only shows in town: the protest veterans of the 60s, the Yippies, staged their pot smoke-ins; the punks did their "Rock Against Reagan" concert (chanting "Eat the Rich" and "Fuck Off and Die" when the Republican delegates came streaming out of the convention center nearby, battling to be heard over a loud school band...
...with all this, there was no violence as there was in San Francisco, and there were not nearly as many protestors as at the March On Washington a year earlier. But there was something special here--all the more telling because of the lack of attention it received. A thousand poor people came in from all over the country to broil for three days in the hot Texas sun--where temperatures reached upwards of 110 degrees--simply to exercise their First Amendment freedom, to express the injuries and wrongs that had been done to them by the Reagan regime...