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...expect a major disagreement -- I'll state for a fact that there will be one. But I do expect the differences to be narrowed as a result of my discussions with President Bush. I hope the character of the relationship I've developed with the President will permit us to move forward rather than backward in our discussions. When two partners meet, each side has its own interests to look after, and the other side must take that into account. The main thing is to find as much harmony as possible between the two sides' positions. If, in any area...
Last week students, many sporting yellow armbands and BETTER DEAD THAN COED T shirts, continued to boycott classes and blockade buildings. The faculty (51% women, 49% men) volunteered to recruit more female students and teach more courses at no extra cost if the trustees would permit Mills to remain an all-female enclave. Alumnae pledged to raise an additional $10 million in endowment over the next five years. In response to the pressure, Mills president Mary Metz announced that the trustees might reconsider their decision if faculty, staff and students came up with bolder proposals to bolster the school...
...Lusia and I -- she in Italy after a hard-fought battle to permit her to leave the country to treat her glaucoma; I in Moscow -- heard the news that I had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The official reaction in the U.S.S.R. was one of intense irritation tinged with nervousness. I was denied permission to go to Norway for the Nobel award ceremonies on the grounds that I was "an individual possessing knowledge of state secrets." Lusia accepted the award for me in Oslo in December...
Designed as an extension of the city's 1979 "removal permit" ordinance, C 1/2 would prohibit landlords from selling off individual units from a block of rent-controlled apartments...
Mathematician Thomas Donaldson, 46, of Sunnyvale, Calif., believes that science will eventually make immortality possible, and he wants in on it. Last week he asked a state court judge to permit a seven-person team to freeze him, then sever his frozen head and store it. Someday, he figures, science will provide a cure for the cancer that afflicts him. Then, if doctors can master the art of brain transplantation, Donaldson's noggin could be thawed out and his brain implanted in another body. At $35,000, freezing a head is a good deal cheaper than...