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Rachel A. Radio '68, one of 27 Cliffies who fasted for five days last May to allow all seniors the option to live "off-off" and was forced to live on-campus this year, said of the new proposal, "Although the $270 charge is unfortunate, the new policy is a...
Donna Lieberman '70, another of the Cliffies who fasted last spring, called requiring students to pay a service charge "a whitewash job" because "Radcliffe is squandering money on things lots of students don't want." She said that Mrs. Bunting has been vague about what she considers college services.
Died. Tara Singh, 82, crusty champion of religious and political rights for India's 8,000,000 Sikhs; of a heart attack; in Chandigarh, India. Militant leader of the fiercely proud Sikhs since the early 1930s, Singh stirred up many a political fracas, was jailed by both the British...
What drove Luther to health-crack ing rigors of austerity-he sometimes fasted for three days, slept without a blanket in freezing winter-was a profound sense of his own sinfulness and of God's unutterable majesty. In the midst of saying his first Mass, Luther wrote, "I was...
It is ten years since Dolci's "reverse strike" won him prominence in the world press. He led a group of unemployed Sicilians out to repair a government road to their village and was imprisoned for trespass. He began in Trapetto, a no-hope town of 2,800, and...