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...talking to the prospective patrolman. There are no formal requirements to be a Harvard policeman and there is no special training program. The men simply have to be of Tonis' liking and seem willing to view their role as helping the students instead of legalistically enforcing the law. To date, Harvard police have never arrested anyone affiliated with the University...
...hoped to bring a massive group of Puerto Ricans to the United Nations building to demand immediate independence of their homeland, withdrawal of U. S. military forces and nuclear arms for the island, and freedom for the political prisoners involved in independence struggles. October 30 was chosen as the date of the march, commemorating the twentieth anniversary of one such struggle, in which 25 Puerto Ricans were killed, 37 were taken prisoner, and over a thousand were wounded by Americans forces...
...tend to be young doctors, idealistic lawyers, Kennedy men, believers in the New York Times editorial page, as well, presumably, as Ralph Nader and all his raiders. Unlike Consciousness I, Consciousness II people are aware of the erosion of the American Dream. But they are equally out of date. For they still seek and glorify "power, success, rewards, competence," above all the control of nature by man. They will have nothing to do with "awe, mystery, helplessness, magic...
Such nasty little games would not go on if we had any way of keeping our political lexicon up to date. Not merely the hybrids, but elemental political terms such as conservative, liberal, radical, progressive, are wildly misleading as descriptions of the actual positions, motivations and attitudes of most of the people to whom they refer...
...date, Britain's informally educated children have scored as well on most standard tests as those in traditional classrooms. Best of all, says Silberman, eager kids begin to show up for school early-and instead of running wild, they avoid many of the discipline problems that can drain up to 75% of a teacher's time. One of Silberman's most interesting discoveries is that techniques similar to the British approach have been spreading quietly in U.S. public schools. In the past three years, varieties of it have worked well in at least 28 school districts...