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...addition, a compressed primary calendar will discourage multi-year Presidential campaigns. It is absurd that people like Walter F. Mondale started their race for the Oval Office in 1981. And long campaigns basically disqualify public servants currently in office from contention...
While it is probably impossible to legislate away the multi-year campaign, at the very least, the one-day primary would give these eager beavers no added incentive...
...Israeli occupation: early in the week, two Israeli soldiers were killed near the Shi'ite Muslim village of Arab Salmi, bringing the total number of Israeli fatalities in Lebanon to 571. Within shattered Beirut, the 1,250 French troops who are all that remain of the four-nation Multi-National Force were told that their departure was probably imminent after the Soviet Union vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution calling for their replacement by a U.N peace-keeping force. In an austere communiqué following the Soviet veto, the government of President François Mitterrand declared that...
...superb as Jim, the runaway slave trying to raft his way into a free state. Jim's character is the only one that is developed beyond the two-dimensionality of the others. Resisting the temptation to condescend to his role or to the audience, Halley portrays a multi-faceted, complex character who is childlike and wise at once, evoking pathos without fishing for it. Were Huck as carefully developed and convincingly acted as Jim, the different episodes of the play would assume the coherence and interest that the production occasionally lacks...
Another recent development is the idea of "multi-cultural curriculum" currently gaining momentum in the schools. School administrators say Cambridge's diverse ethnic population of Hartians. Greeks and Portugese as well as Blacks necessitates an education reflecting the city's make...