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...meet Remigio Cruz '86, one cannot help but wonder what to expect. There are the publicized incidents with Harvard police, who repeatedly stopped Cruz because he says he did not fit the Harvard student image. On the other hand, there is his well-praised work with Puerto Rican youth in Boston...
Many recent graduates continue to frequentCambridge, coming to undergraduate parties, datingundergraduates, and trying to hold on to thequickly receding pleasures of their Harvard youth.I used to laugh at these hangers-on, but I nowunderstand their weakness. Like them, I came herea naive youth, only to be stripped of myself-confidence, and thrown into an adult worldthat is infinitely more complex and subtle thanthe one I left. I suspect that those who do nothave this fear of leaving college have yet toreach that moment of self-knowledge, thatrealization that life is neither as wonderful oras simple as it seems...
Nuclear power has also come under increased attack in Italy since the Chernobyl accident. Groups ranging from the Communist Youth Federation to the World Wildlife Fund International are seeking the 500,000 signatures needed for a national referendum on atomic energy. A new opinion poll found that 71% of those surveyed would bar new nuclear units, while about half favored closing Italy's three existing facilities. The government of Socialist Prime Minister Bettino Craxi opposes the referendum. Says Party Spokesman Claudio Martelli: "Italy is surrounded by countries, like France, with dozens of nuclear plants in operation, many of them very...
...California Angels do have a funny way of looking at youth. Don Sutton, 41, still pitches. Bob Boone, 38, still catches. From Pitcher Ken Forsch, 39, to Second Baseman Bobby Grich, 37, one could go on for quite a while in this varicose vein. But it is probably enough to say that Jimmie Reese, the Angels' "conditioning coach," is 80 and used to room with Babe Ruth. And the designated hitter, Reggie Jackson, has just turned...
...organization ever since his friend Mandela went to prison in the early 1960s, called on South African blacks to give their full support to a national strike on June 16, the tenth anniversary of the uprising in Soweto. Declared Tambo: "Let every university and school be emptied of its youth. Let every mine, factory, farm and white home be without labor. Let every shop close its doors." With emotions running so high on both sides, and with both camps showing signs of fracturing under the pressure, any hope of peace seemed more remote than ever...