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Given the space constrictions October 24, the summary nature of the report was understandable. Nonetheless, it seemed to me that the story lacked essential background that your readers unfamiliar with South Africa would need for a fuller understanding of the investment problem...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ford In Africa | 11/3/1980 | See Source »

Despite their Harvard peers' laid-back view of academics, courses have kept all three very busy, thanks largely to language difficulties and unfamiliar "in-class terminology." Like many other freshmen, all three are taking Ec 10; Bing and Jia say they may major in Economics, while Lynn leans towards Applied Math...

Author: By Paul A. Engelmayer, | Title: A Great Leap Westward | 10/22/1980 | See Source »

Along in an unfamiliar country and spurned by their fellow citizens, the Irish turned to the Church. The first immigrants attended Mass in Boston or Charlestown, but within ten years enough Irish lived in Cambridge to support a parish. In 1841, St. John's, the first Roman Catholic church in the city, was dedicated...

Author: By Wendy L. Wall, | Title: Cambridge Eyes Were Smiling | 10/4/1980 | See Source »

This failure to "widen the circle" is experienced by older immigrants, who are frightened to begin a new life and learn a new, unfamiliar language. Younger immigrants, especially children, adjust faster to the language and thus outstrip their parents in adapting to American society. This, sociologists say, sometimes results in a lack of communication between parents and children. However Natasha and Marina Taube, ages seven and ten, respectively, are as close as ever to their parents...

Author: By Mark H. Doctoroff, | Title: From Leningrad With Love | 10/3/1980 | See Source »

Such pointillistic touches make Island Journey different from autobiography or nature writing. Though she sometimes takes herself a mite too seriously, Arthur gives an uncanny account of what her experience felt like. At her best, she can make a strange, unfamiliar setting provoke shocks of recognition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Winter Kills | 9/29/1980 | See Source »

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