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...fueled growth and filled the coffers of the world's most famous gambling mecca. But to people living in the surrounding rural counties, it is a symbol of the wastefulness and city-slicker hubris that have pitted them against Las Vegas in a bitter fight over the most precious resource in the West. Faced with a drought and a water shortage that threaten future growth, Clark County, which includes Las Vegas, has applied for rights to all the unallocated underground water within its boundaries and surrounding Nye, White Pine and Lincoln counties. It is one of the biggest attempted water...
Three hours after I began, I had learned no valuable lessons. I had gained precious few insights into Rudenstine's character. The essence of the new president remained a mystery to me, as it does to Harvard...
...Council's stances on issues ranging from the Pittston coal strike to divestment are completely ineffective, and they force students to question the legitimacy of a body which squanders precious time (and student money) on issues over which it has no control. Not only are the council's forays into political issues unjustifiable, then; they are also counterproductive, damaging administrative and student perceptions of the effectiveness of the Council...
Whence this angry dismissal of a "fellow Arab" by a self-proclaimed Pan-Arabist if "Arabism is the most precious thing every Arab has," the sustaining Arab "spirit," the "blood" in the Arab soul, and so forth...
Allied statesmen found precious little to cheer about. The plan did show some improvements. Unlike all Iraqi statements since mid-August, it did not propose any form of linkage: no mention of Palestinians or Israeli withdrawal from the occupied West Bank, Gaza and Golan Heights; no talk of a Middle East peace conference. It did not demand any pullout of allied forces from the gulf area, a key point in Baghdad's proposals less than a week earlier. And this time Iraq did agree to a prompt exchange of prisoners. But the plan still conspicuously failed even to mention some...