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...hope to preserve a strong element of choice [in the lottery] but also to make more progress with the issue of diversity than we have," Dean of the College John B. Fox, Jr. '59 said yesterday, adding that the report offered some "good alternatives...
Wednesday night they performed four very different dances that which all shared one basic element an abundance of energy. Regardless of whether the dance was to the music of George Winston. Mendelssohn, Peter Gordon or Pat Metheny, one could feel the pulsing rhythm and energy of the dancers, their lithe bodies stretching and pulling and creating forces...
...scoops, according to one former reporter at the paper. As a result, a column writer could be tempted to swap information with a news source in exchange for fresh tips. "Out of a galaxy of motives," said the ex-staffer, "it is conceivable that there is but one element: simple pressure to get a story...
...best serve as an effective advocate for the world's poor and oppressed? One answer is a movement known as "liberation theology." Its proponents, who view history in Marxist terms, work to raise the consciousness of the downtrodden in what they see as a class struggle. A fringe element has even flirted with revolutionary violence. Developed in the late 1960s among Latin American Roman Catholics, liberation theology has spread with increasing force throughout the Third World, as well as among leftist Catholic and Protestant circles in Europe and North America...
ROBERT LUDLUM NOVELS have always possessed an element of predictability. You've read one, and you've almost read them all. Throw in a worldwide semi-omnipotent conspiracy to take over the free-world, a desperate, haunted and isolated protagonist, a romantic interest, a trusty sidekick and you have all of the elements of a Ludlum thriller. Usually, the book contains a thrilling array of plot twists that leave you gasping for air. But not this time. Never has the predictability of a Ludlum novel nor the lack of conviction or joy in spinning a good tale hit the reader...