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Lampe said that the national attention focusedon presidential contender Dukakis and his repeatedreferences to the Massachusetts Miracle shouldmake the topic especially relevant...
...topic of negotiation as a means ofresolving conflict will be covered by Babbitt.Babbitt said she will look at differentstrategies, how perceptions and misperceptions ofthe opposing group affects talks and hownegotiations break down...
...such reintegration attempts, tutors say. The dual goal of prisons--to protect society and to punish criminals--creates an atmosphere in which inmates have little room to grow or reform, says former PBH Prisons Committee chairman Christine L. Vanasse '88, who wrote her thesis on the topic. "If' we punish them, how at the same time can we make them better people?" she asks...
Before I leave the topic of the word, of language and of literature, I want to say something about the spoken word. The best speaker I heard in my life was Reinhold Niebuhr, the American theologian and philosopher. I first heard him at Friends' House, London, in July 1946. He spoke for an hour without notes, and he had us in the hollow of his hand. One of his themes was the potential goodness of individual man, and the potential wickedness of collective man. An individual man could become a saint, but collective man was a tough proposition. He broke...
...Quantitative Reasoning Requirement (QRR) will be more difficult for the class of 1992, and may be on its way to becoming an eleventh Core Curriculum topic, some of its administrators said yesterday...