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...John Paul at Saturday afternoon's welcome on the White House lawn: "God blessed America by sending you to us." The Pope drew enormous crowds: 400,000 for a rainswept Mass on Boston Common, 1 million for a Mass in Philadelphia's Logan Circle, half a million at Grant Park in Chicago. Not everyone who attended the Pope's road show was swept up in the emotionalism, but the huge
Wilcox said yesterday committee members in "hard science" concentrations--including Physics, Mathematics, Statistics, Applied Sciences, and Applied Mathematics--from the required half-year Core course in biological sciences. Because these concentrations do not cover the life-sciences, the committee will only grant concentrators an exemption in the half-year Core course in physical sciences, he said...
...standing committee members agreed they could grant two half-year course exemptions to History concentrators because concentration requirements overlap the Core area of Historical Studies...
Andrew M. Gleason, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and chairman of the Core Committee on Mathematics Requirement, said committee members also doubt they will grant more than one half-year course exemption for Philosophy concentrators...
...audiences can grant the picture its imaginative leaps, and go with its surprising tone, they will be pleasantly rewarded. The wit derives mainly from Writer-Director Meyer's wry confrontations between Futurist Wells and a world that does not in any way match his optimistic projections of things to come. Whether trying to adjust to the automobile, a Big Mac or a Mickey Mouse telephone, Wells is a consistently appealing figure. After playing lots of reprehensible characters (A Clockwork Orange) McDowell exhibits a first-rate change-up. Even more surprising is Mary Steenburgen as the junior bank officer...