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...time. Says a friend: "She covered the pain for two hours every afternoon. It was sheer determination." Says Irina Kosmovska, who began teaching Darci in California when she was eleven: "Darci was a fountain of energy. She tried everything. She was one of my most intense students-she would commit suicide on the floor...
...threats, as well as against those who "normally" foster such outrages, encourage them, enjoy them, privately applaud them? Unless Massachusetts and University Halls have dispatched youthful agents to shout racist remarks or scribble the snotty graffitti on Harvard's bathroom and elevator walls, or Faculty members and other employees commit these offenses, it must be your White fellow students who do them. Why not find out who the culprits and their cliques are, and address yourselves to them...
...Miami city commission has budgeted $100,000 for an advertising program to attract 150 new police recruits. Though the Miami Beach city commission refused to approve a proposed 11 p.m. curfew, it did adopt a temporary ordinance that allows policemen to stop and frisk anyone suspected of having committed or intending to commit a crime. The commission also voted an interim ordinance against congregating "in a manner that blocks sidewalks or threatens the safety of property or persons," and closed the city's beaches and parks between 10 p.m. and sunrise during November...
...R.S.C. can run like a machine but sustains itself like a family. Members typically commit themselves to a season each in Stratford and in London, with out side work negotiable. The pay is short (from $208 to $960 a week), and the training is rigorous. Besides daily rehearsals, actors may log time in movement, fencing and dance classes, as well as brush up on voice and language with the R.S.C.'s crack vocal coach, Cicely Berry. "You've got to make Shakespeare sound so new-minted you could almost hear it in the street," says Judi Dench. Sinead...
Administration officials say that it is likely the President would commit the U.S. to return all the Iranian assets, but he would leave the precise method for doing so to be determined later. The Iranians, who find themselves increasingly isolated in the world community and short of money to fight an expensive war, are apt to go along with a compromise. Whatever the immediate solution, the real winners may be the lawyers, who are likely to earn their own fortunes fighting court battles over the Iranian funds...