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Books on display in Widener's main lobby include a collection of essays titled Anti-Feminism in the Academy, edited by Margaret Higonnet, and No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism in the Universities, by Ellen W. Schrecker...
VENICE: Six armed separatists took over the bell tower in St. Mark's Square for a few hours early Friday morning to proclaim independence for Venice. Although the group had brought enough supplies for a long stay in the tower, they barely had time to hang out a banner proclaiming their new "Serenissima Repubblica," as the old Venetian republic was called, before police forces scaled the 350-foot building and hauled the men away. Two other separatists were arrested in a mock armored car positioned in the square. No one was injured in the raid. The Northern League, a separatist...
...same dry rot passivity that's eaten away at educational institutions across the country for the last two decades is finally beginning to crack the ivory tower. It is easy for us as students to claim immunity from social responsibility within the community. After all, we are just students here. We live in dorms; we don't live in Cambridge...
Franklin, which had not seen a murder in nine years, is overwhelmed with rumors: a boy who threatened to spill the beans was found dead in a Dumpster; another body was thrown from a water tower; not only was pizza flung in the air in celebration, slices were smeared on the faces of the dead. None of those rumors were true. So what is the truth? "I can't comment on the motive," says Sussex County prosecutor Dennis O'Leary. "But I can tell you what it's not. There was no intent to rob. It was not an initiation...
...didn't take a politician of Churchillian stature to figure out what needed doing. The Labour Party hadn't won a national election in Britain for 23 years. Its tattered platform of watered-down Bolshevism had become as irrelevant as the suits of armor in the Tower of London...