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...Winthrop and Leverett House film societies go for the diversity. "We show the whole gamut of films, like Cary Grant and Walt Disney," says Thomas D. Young '86, president of Winthrop's film society...
That sentiment is widely shared in the Philippines and in Washington. In both places, there is a near overwhelming sense that a chapter of history is almost over: the Marcos era. Over the two decades since his first democratic election in 1965, the President has run the gamut of transformation, changing from a populist reformer to a modernizing strongman to, in recent years, a fading and often grotesque shadow of his former authoritarian self. In the process, he has profoundly changed his country, at times in the past for the better, but of late decidedly for the worse...
Crack's low price and quick payoff make it especially alluring to teenagers. Young abusers, said Arnold Washton, a New York expert on treating cocaine addicts, "run the gamut from inner-city ghetto kids to kids from affluent suburbs." But the price of this highly concentrated drug is greater than many youngsters realize: New Jersey's national cocaine hot line (1-800-COCAINE) has found that 98% of the callers say they became addicted to crack within six months...
...unimportant, victory, the reintroduction of salt marshes on the overpopulated and overused Atlantic coast fights erosion, provides a haven for besieged wildlife, and helps remove heavy metals and organic compounds from waters contaminated by industrial waste. The list of restoration activities goes on as Berger's chapters run the gamut of contemporary environmental problems...
...does not stop at the law school gates. It is a new radical social vision informed by critical approaches running the gamut from Gramsci to Derrida. Gone are the criteria of "scholarly excellence" and "intellectual integrity," the bywords of the conservatives under attack. In their place is a conviction that the law can never be apolitical, whether in courtrooms or classrooms...