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...Scratch a collector, and you find a pack rat who likes to play librarian. As a teenager Elton bought rock records extravagantly, then organized them with Prussian efficiency, filing them by record label and catalog number. With early stardom he loaded up on the usual blunder acquisitions of new-money collectors. (What was it exactly that baby boomers saw in Art Nouveau posters and Tiffany lamps?) Most of that he sold off some years ago in the mental and physical housecleaning that accompanied his decision to stop drinking. Then he went to lunch in France, somebody showed him some prints...
Unfortunately, even in more temperate weather, the wait to use the MAC's athletic facilities is already too long. But the flaws in the current MAC do not end with the limited number of treadmills, stairclimbers and stationary bikes available for undergraduate use. Not only are the facilities rundown and the little equipment available both terribly antiquated and limited in its variety, but the allotment of space in the MAC is also in need of repair...
...search process proceeded through the fall, a number of student groups fought to give students a greater voice in the process...
...search committee agreed to meet with members of the council. After some controversy over the number of representatives that would meet with the committee, the council elected 15 students--including several students who were not members of the council--to meet with the search officials...
...grew up under Israeli occupation are increasingly skeptical of the abilities of the leaders who came from abroad. They see themselves as the ones who know how to handle the Israelis, and they believe that the returning exiles have achieved pitifully little after seven years of negotiation. A growing number of Palestinians blame not only the Israelis, but also their current leadership for their current plight, and that makes the current intifada also an implicit protest against the Palestinian establishment...