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...fetching water, cleaning guns, tending the pack mules. Each night two or three of them slip into the desert alongside mules laden with water, food and ammunition and cross past the enemy to the forward posts three hours away. Each boy has his own AK-47, the only valuable object any of them has ever owned...
...coffers of Harvard's endowment, the obsession with financial considerations at the expense of ethics remains a serious problem. Harvard's growing stake in venture capital investments is not a problem by itself. We recognize that high yield on the endowment are good for all of us. We object, however, to the total lack of oversight by the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR) over such investments. Harvard Management Corporation (HMC), which controls the University's investments, has sunk more than a billion dollars into high-risk, high-yield "private placement" investments, all without a trace of accountability to anyone...
...Bonn by leaking any cable or memorandum that reveals Americans to be exploiting Soviet anxiety about Germany. There is nothing cryptic about the apprehension of the British, French, Czechoslovaks and Poles as they watch the juggernaut of German unification. The Bush Administration keeps hoping the Kremlin will therefore not object too strenuously as the U.S. helps sponsor the emergence of a new Germany at the center of a new NATO...
Although teachers who have used Kumon are generally enthusiastic about the results, a few question the value of the repetitious system, with its heavy emphasis on the mechanics of math. Some are unconvinced that test-score increases are attributable to Kumon, while others object to the $45-a-pupil annual cost. Shirley Frye, president of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, takes a balanced view. "Of course there is no panacea for teaching math," she says. "We are looking for all of the methods that will help make students successful." Kumon certainly seems to be one of them...
...spring, Dr. Peter Moyer at Boston City was tending to a young man who had been wounded in a shoot-out, presumably over the cocaine the staff found stashed in his underwear. Hovering nearby was the patient's bodyguard, an immense personage who kept his hand on a bulging object inside his jacket. He refused to leave when the security guards ordered him out. When they threatened to call the police, the patient climbed off the treatment table and walked out with the bullet still lodged...