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October 15, 6:29 a.m.--A student security guard reported that some unknown persons had poured green and white paint over the statue of John Harvard. Officers responding failed to find any suspects. Buildings and Grounds was notified...
...does. The boats glide one-by-one under the packed Anderson Bridge, and throngs of enthusiastic well-wishers lend their support to each vessel. Only when the times become known a half-hour after the event ends are the winners determined. For the fans, the results often remain unknown unless they read the agate type in the next day's Globe...
Last week, the campus of the University of Massachusetts in Amherst was leafletted by posters proclaiming a rally for "Utopia," a previously unknown organization. They declared among their goals the elimination of the Third World Students newspaper, the establishment of white supremacy and ridding the campus of "Chinks, Gooks and Niggers." The rally was scheduled for the same afternoon the posters appeared. The University administration issued a statement that any students attending the Utopia rally would be arrested on the spot. Progressive student organizations immediately organized a counter-demonstration to the Utopian rally: three hundred people attended. Subsequently...
With Sadat's removal, the Middle East, after a period of relative stability, heads once again for the unknown. In Egypt, a new search for identity has already begun, and its outcome will profoundly affect the entire world. As President, Sadat successfully managed to impose peace as the goal for his country. As a legacy, Sadat would surely have wished for that goal to become eternal...
Little is offered to ameliorate these spasms of despair. Daniel questions his father about the old man's grandparents, a French-Canadian fur trader and a Blackfoot Indian woman. But seeking his heritage only makes the son realize how much of it has been lost. Seeing unknown relatives at his father's wake, Daniel muses: "For me, they brought with them a crude air as of a settlement in the woods of people of strange blood, a settlement which was not really a success." Reconstructing a gathering his family had held some 20 years earlier, he recalls...