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Having made a career of reconstructing long-dead civilizations from random remains, Archaeologist William L. Rathje hit on an idea: Why not use kindred techniques to study a modern culture? So for about four years Rathje and his students at the University of Arizona have held classes at the Tucson Sanitation Division's maintenance yard...
...seat at meetings and cultivates an appropriate air of mystery about himself by hinting to visitors about his role in some still-secret cold war mission. Korda also made sure to grab a power position when his predecessor as Simon & Schuster editor in chief, Robert Gottlieb, moved on to Random House. Says Korda, who threatened to quit if he was not allowed to take over Gottlieb's vacant office: "If I hadn't moved into that office and in effect seized the territory as fast as possible, things could have gone wrong...
...random assignment plan the Task Force advocates is unsatisfactory because it eliminates most student choice without solving any of the underlying problems of the housing system. Only when the suggested renovations at the Quad have been completed, shuttle-bus service expanded, and the Observatory Hill athletic complex made a reality will the Quad achieve de facto parity with the River in the minds of most students...
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Europe by now has become accustomed to random acts of violence by terrorists, ranging from Basque extremists to Irish Republican Army gunmen to Palestinian guerrillas. But the perpetrators of last week's outrage-as well as their cause-were little known outside The Netherlands. The terrorists were Indonesians from the South Molucca islands in the Pacific Ocean, and they were demanding that the Dutch help them gain independence from the Jakarta regime...