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...failed to mention the most basic parallel between El Salvador and Viet Nam. Once again the U.S., the foreigner, is playing God, picking the good and the bad side and intervening in the internal politics of another country we do not know or understand. The analogy with Viet Nam is not that we might win or lose, but that we, a superpower, can so callously use a poor peasant nation as an unwilling surrogate in our struggle with the U.S.S.R. for the title of toughest country on the globe...
...Harvard fans went crazy after the goal--the crowd was among the many who suffered a tentative awe of Clarkson through the early moments of the game--and parallel to their pick up in tempo, the icemen also stepped up a notch...
...incorrect, in my view, to have the Faculty approve a student government. Why should, in a parallel example. Massachusetts have any say in the constitution of California? Granted, if they choose to do so, the Faculty could have offered the student-composed constitution convention the benefits of their wisdom, but only in the form of advice--not veto. Unfortunately, as the saying goes, beggars cannot be choosers Students could, without Faculty approval, set up a centralized student government and elect representatives to it (Sounds like a Student Assembly to me) But since the Faculty control the money and authority-granting...
During dinner, when the King spoke, all was silent; my comments were drowned in a buzz of conversation. The silences for the King heightened my awareness of Faisal's standard speech. Its basic proposition was that Jews and Communists were working now in parallel, now together, to undermine the civilized world as we knew...
...dance, the likely parallel is Choreographer Jerome Robbins, 63, of the New York City Ballet. Robbins' popular credentials are impeccable-a string of Broadway hits that includes the dances for On the Town, West Side Story, Gypsy and Fiddler on the Roof. Yet his first love has always been ballet, and during a career stretching back to 1944, he has created such modern classics as the footloose Fancy Free, the silent Moves and a brilliant gloss on Afternoon of a Faun. Last week at Lincoln Center, in a meeting of two kindred spirits, Robbins came face to face with...