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...matter of current interest," she says, noting that Harvard seeks not only to add books which are needed now, but books that might not be needed until 50 years from now. "I always like to use a phrase that's a Chinese expression: learning is like sailing against the tide--if you don't advance, you're retreating," Feng says...
...Tory tide pushed many prominent Liberals from their seats, including lona Campagnolo and 15 of Turner's 29 Cabinet ministers. In the postmortem, Turner's aides spoke bitterly of Trudeau. They blamed him for not quitting office sooner, thus affording Turner more time to build his record, and for weakening the party by ignoring its provincial roots. Asked what he thought of Turner's campaign, Trudeau blithely replied, "I don't really know. I've been on vacation." Said a top Liberal strategist: "Trudeau did not give a fig about the party. It was hard...
...Conservatives, perceived in Quebec as the party of English-speaking Canada, had carried the province only once, in 1958; in the last election, they managed to win just one of Quebec's 75 seats. Last week they captured 58. The remarkable shift emphasized just how dramatically the political tide in Quebec has turned: after 25 years of mounting autonomist fervor, the urge to unmerge is subsiding. "On the scale of things outdated," wrote Lawrence Martin, a Montreal-based columnist for the Toronto Globe and Mail, "separatism finishes only slightly ahead of the Hula-Hoop...
...tide in the rough waters of the North Sea, it looked like a dead whale floating on its belly. But the Mont Louis, a 4,210-ton French container ship that sank on Aug. 25 after colliding with a German passenger ferry eleven miles from the Belgian coast, was very much alive with frenzied activity. Three tugboats buzzed noisily around it, while black dinghies delivered wet-suited divers. The focus of their labors: 360 tons of uranium hexafluoride, raw material from which nuclear fuel is made and which is not a severe radiation danger. Three barrels, however, contained uranium that...
...Stern, for one, believes that the courts "will decide that the public has the right to use the state beaches rather than preserving them for essentially the privileged classes. Why shouldn't a mill worker from Lisbon Falls be able to use the beaches?" he asks. The legal tide seems to be going...