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Your article on nuclear disarmament [April 18] suggests a morality play the American negotiator is the good guy (the white chess pieces), while the Soviets are represented by the black. But your artist also invokes a more subtle truth. In chess the white player moves first. The U S initially developed and deployed these weapons. It introduced each new advancement and continued to build its arsenal. Having led the world to this impasse, why should Americans expect someone else to take the lead in giving up arms...
...U of C has always been known for its liberal arts. We try to promote a basic liberal arts general education. Arts and sciences are the core of this institution," said James Yuenger, director of public affairs for the university. The Daily Northwestern
...plump, dastardly villains, but also played sentimental men-about-Europe, most notably the Marseille shopkeeper in Broadway's Fanny (1954), for which he won a Tony Award; by his own hand (he shot himself); in Flower Hill, N.Y. His most memorable film role was that of the deceitful U-boat captain in Alfred Hitchcock's Lifeboat (1944), but he may be better known today as Ronald Reagan's co-star-with a chimp-in the 1951 Bedtime for Bonzo...
...find it useful to view the self-fulfillment movement in terms of "stage theory", as a reaction to stages in American life that had preceded it. At the first stage, as when a family first migrates to the U. S. people seem governed by what might be called the "ethic of compliance" or "conformity" they do whatever they do because that is the way it is done here. They work because everyone is expected to work. But then, perhaps in the next generation, they move to the next stage in which they assume more control over their lives. This stage...
...staged a hunger strike to dramatize their opposition the school's investments in companies operating in the racist state Responding to student outcry, the University of Michigan has actually agreed to partial divestiture from such firms What is perhaps less well known is that students at universities outside the U S have began to register their disapproval as well...