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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...better to lead the class than Bruce Springsteen. Lennon had lately become warmly admiring of Springsteen, especially his hit single Hungry Heart. Springsteen could probably have let Lennon's death pass unremarked, and few in the audience at his Philadelphia concert last Tuesday would have been troubled. But instead of ripping right into the first song, Springsteen simply said, "If it wasn't for John Lennon, a lot of us would be some place much different tonight. It's a hard world that asks you to live with a lot of things that are unlivable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Last Day in the Life | 12/22/1980 | See Source »

...gifts to rich and poor--rejoice!" Bok looks puzzled, turns and asks, "Who are you--Don't tell me you're a share-the-wealth type!" The guide turns east, stares into the blue, He sees red, then says, "I am Richard Pipes. That man riding forth with car instead of sleigh Believes that conservation is a must But cars--they're part of the American way; He finds his cheer in a handful of rust. His new job he won in a landslide, So now he, not Nick, prepares to ride. He fired all the reindeer--they demanded...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Christmas Phantasm | 12/18/1980 | See Source »

...Wellesley students are this negative, however. Some women simply accept the isolation and concentrate instead on obtaining the excellent education that Wellesley has to offer--a factor that attracts many students in the first place. Getting admitted to Wellesley is no easy task. 71% of the students ranked in the top tenth of their high school class, and their SAT scores generally fall into the high...

Author: By Caroline R. Adams, | Title: Malice in Wonderland | 12/18/1980 | See Source »

Amid hisses and jeers from the class, Weisinger said that sociobiology is a "political" theory which, instead of aiding societal development, increases the propensity for war. "How else do leaders get people to fight in war?" he asked, arguing that "a political theory for inferiority" provides a popular excuse...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Protestor Labels Theories 'Racist' Before Science B-15 | 12/17/1980 | See Source »

MORE THAN A DECADE later, these former students still argue that a disciplinary committee created by administrators and faculty who wield power should not be "prettified"--one student's word--by undergraduates with no power and no reason to expect that they will gain it. Instead, they advise, students should study the University's power structure and remember what they learn. The stories of these students' encounters with a student-faculty disciplinary committee constitute the only concrete evidence students of today have to review in deciding what part, if any, they should play in bodies like CRR. Here...

Author: By Susan C. Faludi, | Title: The University Tries its Students: Case Histories From the CRR File | 12/17/1980 | See Source »

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