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...note that some other Americanpeculiarities contribute well to comedy...
...Editor's Note: The following are excerpts from the diary of a Harvard student who suffers from acute addiction to TETRIS, that bizarre computer game in which you piece together a succession of falling, irregularly shaped blocks into rows. The author of these memoirs wants others to learn from her experience and stop playing the TETRIS before it's too late--and before they beat her high score...
...Editor's note: The assertion that The Crimson withheld the name of a student arrested last year is incorrect. The letter evidently refers to the the case of a student who was arrested last February for allegedly falsifying driver's licenses. In keeping with its policy, The Crimson printed the student's name in the story "Freshman Is Arrested on Fake ID charges," Feb. 22, 1989. Leo Clark'92 (On behalf of a group of 10 students...
...recent poll indicates that 61% of the French favor German unification (vs. 45% of the British), but Paris officials are not enthusiastic. Said Foreign Minister Roland Dumas: "I took note of the remark of one East German who said, 'Our friendly neighbors should understand the desire of Germans for reunification.' I am tempted to answer him, 'Germans should also understand the worries of their friendly neighbors.' " Mitterrand last week conceded "the Germans' fundamental right to self-determination." But then he quickly added, "That said, the Germans must take into consideration the engagements that bind us to each other, to European...
...Note that this reasoning is applied only to Jews. When other people suffer -- Vietnamese, Algerians, Palestinians, the French Maquis -- they are usually allowed a grace period during which they are judged by a somewhat lower standard. The victims are, rightly or wrongly (in my view, wrongly), morally indulged. A kind of moral affirmative action applies. We are asked to understand the former victims' barbarities because of how they themselves suffered. There has, for example, been little attention to and less commentary on the 150 Palestinians lynched by other Palestinians during the intifadeh. How many know that this year as many...