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For a time last week, the release of the first prisoners seemed as maddeningly tentative as the Paris talks themselves. Last-minute haggling between Saigon and the Communists delayed the move from day to day. Then at week's end the word was passed through the Pentagon: 115 of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: P.O.W.S: A Celebration of Men Redeemed | 2/19/1973 | See Source »

The mediateur, as the ombudsman is called, will be assisted by a dozen high-ranking civil servants, who are, of course, bureaucrats. Unlike the Swedes or Norwegians, who can complain directly to their ombudsmen, Frenchmen who feel mistreated by their government will find a wall of nearly 1,000 Deputies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: The Non-Ombudsman | 2/19/1973 | See Source »

Undoubtedly the high point of excitement of a dull match came in first-round epee action. Chris Jennings, Marion's premier epee fencer, got caught up in an act worthy of an Academy Award nomination as he feigned injury after two collisions with MIT's Bill Eckal, who displayed as...

Author: By Peter A. Landry, | Title: Fencers Survive MIT Scare To Capture Sixth Win, 18-9 | 2/14/1973 | See Source »

Don Juan also tells Castaneda that a warrior must have a worthy opponent, and that Castaneda's opponent is a sorceress named La Catalina. La Catalina appeared briefly in A Separate Reality as a trap (Don Juan later admits) to ensnare Castaneda's warrior spirit. She is a formidable foe...

Author: By Charles Allen, | Title: You Can't Go Home Again | 2/8/1973 | See Source »

Similarly, the curriculum grows without much conscious effort to achieve the various purposes just defined. New courses and programs appear, but they are usually added either because students manifest a desire to become acquainted with a new subject or area of human affairs or because the Faculty believes that some...

Author: By Derek C. Bok, | Title: Clearing the Blurs in Education | 2/6/1973 | See Source »

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