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...executives from several newspapers and the Associated Press will come to Harvard in late February to attend a new five-day workshop on growth and changes in information industries...
...classic guerrilla fashion, Polisario fighters are mounting up to five raids a week on enemy-held villages to drain the morale of the occupiers. Beckwith accompanied them on one mortaring mission and filed this account of a five-day, 900-mile venture...
Easy Trails. The program is now mandatory in Scandinavian public schools. As part of the increasing interest in outdoor recreation, orienteering has spread to other European countries and the U.S. This past July, a five-day competition in Sweden drew 16,000 contestants from some 25 countries...
...victim, 24, sued the university. She argued that the assault was a direct result of the school's failure to provide proper security at the gym. After a five-day trial, a D.C. jury agreed and awarded the student $20,000 in compensatory damages. "A very bad precedent," Catholic University Counsel Denver Graham calls it. "A university cannot be the insurer of everyone who comes onto the campus." The precedent, however, rests on well-established principles applied more and more across the U.S. Juries are penalizing slack security against rape attacks and are likely to make those they find...
Nothing, of course, could have been further from the mind of Queen Elizabeth II last week, when she paid the most glittering courtesy call of the U.S. Bicentennial-a five-day visit to the former colonies of her great-great-great-great-grandfather, George III. Still, she noted, while the events of 1776 may have severed constitutional ties between the two countries, the rupture "did not for long break our friendship." She went so far as to thank the American founding fathers for "a very valuable lesson." Said the Queen: "We learned to respect the right of others to govern...