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...list of 18 Soviet families who may receive permission to emigrate to the United States or Israel, released by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) this week, includes the names of Levich and his wife Tanya as well as lesser-known Soviet "refuseniks...
This the argument that for years the Harvard administration has turned against The Crimson and, to a lesser degree in recent years, the weekly Independent. These are just students, the deans smile, shaking their heads--their views are not to be trusted, for they cannot be as cool-headed as we. Often the most pleasant moments at faculty meetings come when the crowd joins together in good-natured laughter at the latest thrust, by some dean or another, at the folly of the "student media." Condescenison is always in style at Faculty meetings...
...lesser scale, three kinds of insects are attacking sweet corn in Maryland and Pennsylvania: the fall army worm, the corn-ear worm and the European corn borer. Ironically, the corn has been so lush this year that sprays used to combat the worms do not fully penetrate the thick foliage. Pest controllers estimate that Maryland farmers could lose up to 75% of their corn crops...
...then agree to reduce the charge in exchange for a guilty plea. The public, on the other hand, complains that criminal defendants get off too lightly. In plea bargaining, armed robbery often becomes unarmed robbery (this is known as "swallowing the gun"), and burglaries by night miraculously become the lesser crime of burglary...
...flawlessly loyal career. As signed first to Vienna, he soon became a Latin American virtuoso, serving in six countries and learning, as he went, superb Spanish, Portuguese, English and half a dozen local dialects. The pastoral job Pope Paul found for him in 1969 would have discouraged a lesser man: the Archbishopric of Cagliari in Sardinia. Baggio gamely traveled the island in a simple black cassock, exhorting fraternal love in place of the endemic vendetta, cajoling landlords and industrialists to provide better conditions for workers. As prefect of the Congregation for Bishops since 1973, he has screened episcopal candidates from...