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Precisely. U.N., E.C. and all the other entries in the dictionary of collective security (c.s.c.e., oas, etc., etc.) are powerless in the face of fighting. They keep the peace only in places where hostilities have already ended, places like the Golan Heights and Cyprus, where neither party is intent, at least today, on going to war. Yet we know from history that as soon as one or the other party changes its mind, all bets are off. In May 1967, Egypt, preparing war against Israel, ordered the U.N. to get its peacekeeping troops out of Sinai. Within days they were...
...dining hall. Resident tutors in Dunster are allowed 14 free meals a week, and non-residents are allocated five. According to Dining Services Director Michael P. Berry, Harvard spends $640,000 in all the houses to feed non-students. This figure includes senior tutors and their families, masters, etc...
...question then becomes: Can you blame the D.U. for what happened? Legally, no, but socially, yes. Of course the Cornell men acted of their own volition and are accountable in the eyes of the law (etc., etc...
...solipsistic bent of so much contemporary fiction, that wan parade of heroes and heroines talking to themselves -- usually about themselves -- and deaf to anything beyond the echoes of self-consciousness. Novels, particularly Victorian triple-deckers, once made room for the outside world, for the ways that history, politics, economics, etc., impinged on the lives of ordinary people. Are such narratives impossible now, or have most novelists simply quit paying attention to current events...
...poems in a row, even an occasional date. This, son, makes for interesting reading, and that is what gets As. Underline them, capitalize them, insert them in outline from: Be sure we don't miss them. Why do you think all exams insist at the top, "Illustrate"; "Be Specific"; etc? They mean it. The illustrations, of course, need not be singularly relevant; but they must be there. If Vague Generalities are anathema, sparkling chips of concrete scattered throughout your bluebook will have you up for sainthood. Or at least Dean's list. Name at least the titles of every other...