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...said that they must agree to remember the hole in the floor, through which they could now see a great red pizza being quartered with a knife that, as Kafka observed, was surely a gift of the Khan to Marco Polo, as each of them over the years would tend to doubt his sanity remembering...
...cloud was dissipated by a dozen suns. The Kissinger who journeyed to China like a modern Marco Polo went on to other foreign policy victories, won almost unanimous confirmation as Secretary of State from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last fall, and only two weeks ago returned in triumph from the Middle East after accomplishing a great diplomatic feat. No wonder that Kissinger, basking in success, did not notice that the cloud behind his shoulder had grown darker and more threatening in his absence...
Briskly written and with a feel for the issue of the moment, the Chronicle -despite its somewhat stuffy title -prides itself on printing all the educational news that's fit to print. That may mean anything from the Supreme Court decision in the Marco DeFunis case (three pages were devoted to excerpts from the majority and minority opinions) to the bestselling books on campus (No. 1 last week...
...Marco DeFunis had every reason to think he was about to write his name large into the lawbooks. Denied entry to the University of Washington Law School in 1971 while blacks and other minority students were admitted under special lower academic requirements, DeFunis filed suit. He was admitted to the school under court order while the case made its leisurely way up to the U.S. Supreme Court. By whatever name-reverse discrimination, affirmative action or quota system-the emotional issue argued by DeFunis, a white, was whether blacks and others as a class could constitutionally be given preferential treatment...
...Marco Brass Ensemble. Free. Saturday, April...