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They look like faint, random smudges on a photographic plate. But for scientists these markings hold a world of meaning. Last week University of California Astronomer Hyron Spinrad and his colleagues announced that the blurs represent four galaxies, great elliptical collections of stars, perhaps even larger than our own Milky Way. More astonishing, they are some 2 billion light-years farther off in space than any other galaxy ever discerned by telescope...
...novel opens with some apparently random letters from Freud and an associate, then shifts to a 13-page poem that reads like a dream fugue of eroticism and premonitions of doom. A woman and a faceless lover fetch up at "a white lakeside hotel" and make love incessantly and imaginatively. Meanwhile, other guests drown when a pleasure boat on the lake goes down in a sudden high wind; a wing of the hotel burns to the ground, killing many others. The poem is followed by an expanded prose version of the same fantasy. This time the woman's lover...
...least for the moment, the war itself has been overshadowed by random attacks on civilians by right-wing and leftist death squads. The rightist squads are often aided by members of the government security forces. Many of them are said to be receiving funds from exiled Salvadorans in Miami and elsewhere who vehemently oppose the junta's land reforms, which have led to the expropriation of some large ranches, and hope to see Duarte's government fall...
...order to maintain "balanced" sex-ratios in each of the 13 Houses, officials will "tinker" with the otherwise random process by establishing minimum and maximum quotas of men and women for each House, Susan A. Neer, the College's housing officer, said yesterday...
...Crimson poll taken yesterday also shows that more than half of the 219 undergraduates and graduates selected at random and interviewed by telephone said they opposed the creation of a Harvard sponsored Third World center that would serve primarily minority students. Only 36 per cent of those interviewed said they had read Bok's eight-page letter, distributed Friday...