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Glenn did not attend last night's function...
...government lifts the current state of emergency, which allows the Sandinistas to control both the press and the army. Ortega announced that the opposition would be given equal media time and access to government funding, but it is still unclear exactly how freely it will be alc lowed to function. Junta Member Carlos Nuñez, wary of the boycott threat, hinted that the government might consider lifting the emergency law as early as April...
...more beautiful and strange and full of possibility is the world that can be imagined by the mythographers at Time or NBC." But he was in effect, admitting that for the sixth time in its 134 year history. Harper's was changing its format in order "to continue to function as a barometer of the social and intellectual weather of the times...
Aside from their purely social function, fraternities also traditionally have been an outlet for excess tension and anxiety. Some people like to call these things pranks but they're really just activities like making tie-dye shirts and ashtrays and wallets when you were a kid at camp. Probably that kid went a little far last year who stood naked in front of the Amherst President's house: the president's wife answered the door. But what's a little toilet paper here and there? At Florida State University last week, one fraternity brother fired a shot into the neck...
...probably the best example anywhere in the country of this great integration between the museum function and the academic, teaching function," says James J. McCarthy, director of the museum. "Unlike any other Harvard museum, the activities are very intimately interwoven with the teaching functions of the department," he adds...