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...existing political coalitions and reshaping those groups internally--seems more probable. The existing institutions are well-known and good at organizing, and in Cambridge that is requisite for electoral success, since the proportional representation system makes it important for voters to rank candidates. The CCA, and to a lesser extent the Independents, have created slate loyalties that allow them to dominate the powerful City Council even if others in the city elect one or two rising stars with allegiances to neither group. "This new type of voter will spell the doom of the Independent control of the City Council (currently...
...presented at the 1979 U.N. Conference for Women, 6 December, 1979 in Lusaka, by the delegate from Somalia, Mrs. Edan Adan Ismael, "Female circumcision ranks high in the list of preventable health hazards and affects almost 100% of the female population of Somalia, Sudan and Djibouti, and to a lesser extent the females of Southern Egypt, Chad, Nigeria, Senegal, Kenya, Ethiopia and Mali just to name a few." Islam is the religion of Somalia and most of the other countries concerned...
...Crimson and Tigers quickly pulled away from the two lesser squads on Lake Carnegie. Princeton hung tough the entire way, with Harvard having to inch out its little-over-one-length margin of victory. As bow man George Hatch said yesterday, "We didn't blow them out or anything...
...lesser man could have made a career out of repeating a style of such individuality (Raoul Dufy? Vlaminck?). But once Miró had perfected it, he abandoned it. In a transformation as abrupt as Picasso's switch from the soft-edged, attenuated figures of his blue period to the African ferocities of Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, Miró launched into his "dream paintings." These were derived partly from his fascination with his new surrealist friends in Paris, Breton and Eluard, and their talk of dream imagery, free association, irrational juxtaposition. And partly from plain hunger...
...current dispute is also territorial. Its focal point is a group of three small islands-Abu Musa, Greater Tunb and Lesser Tunb-that lie near the mouth of the Persian Gulf. These strategically placed islands have traditionally been claimed by the United Arab Emirates, but in 1971 they were seized by the Shah's forces, following Britain's military withdrawal from the gulf. Iraq has vowed to bring the islands back under Arab control, meaning Iraqi control, and on this point enjoys the support of the entire Arab world. Comments Kuwait's influential newspaper al Qabas...