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...predicate our actions on fear of alienating a segment of campus opinion is to reject democracy and majority rule. It confines student government to a narrow, bureaucratic sphere. This view espoused by the Council's leadership is already taking its toll. We have considered fewer substantive proposals (and more bylaw amendments) during the course of this semester than ever before. And most of our proposals, other than social events, have responded to the work of the College administration rather than to student initiative...
Harvard's running game was taking its toll on the hapless Tigers. With three minutes and running alongside Keffer on a Harvard fast break...
...Reagan, calls on our European allies to sever economic relations with Libya, which has been flimsily termed a "terrorist state" by disturbing numbers of centrists as well as the right. All this furor results from some recent acts of irrational slaughter that claimed fewer than 50 civilians--a trivial toll in comparison with, for example, the Lebanese citizens killed during the Israeli occupation of that country, or for that matter with last year's butchery by U.S.-funded Nicaraguan "contras" and the U.S.-supported apartheid government of South Africa. In the recent airport attacks, a handful of Americans died along...
Eighth-year supervisor Nadja B. Gould agrees that counseling can take an emotional toll, but says, "It teaches [counselors] how to listen in new ways." Gould is a clinical social worker for the Mental Health Services...
...their plans for the future. One wants to be President. The other intends to go back to college. Then a third actress, obviously pregnant, says she had planned to have a family--"but not this soon." As she sets the table, a voice-over tells viewers to call a toll-free number for information on contraceptives. Now that's hardly risque...