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Crimson: Most recently in the news, there have been a series of alleged reforms coming from the Nicaraguans. From your perspective, how legitimate are these attempts at reform, or are they just surface measures that don't really go to the root of the problems which the Nicaraguans face...
...military last week took new steps to boost Grenadian confidence. To root out lingering Marxist elements on the island, the Army offered rewards for guns and information. The 82nd Airborne, meantime, conducted target practice for the 396-man Caribbean Peace-Keeping Force that will soon be in charge of Grenada's security...
...color photographs that illustrate it. Borland's relaxed, graceful prose mixes botanical information (the intricate unfolding of shagbark hickory buds), historical oddities (the Midwestern pioneers who used large, hollow sycamores as barns or even dwellings), homely anecdotes (the willow posts in a neighbor's fence that took root and grew into a row of trees), and vivid turns of phrase (the black spruce needles that grow all around the twig "like the hair on the tail of an angry cat"). Borland's concern for conservation is all the more effective for its understatement, as when he quietly...
Whatever positions advocates for change take, they should not continue to ignore the thousands of employees who are their natural allies here. University employees often feel cut off, neglected, looked down upon. It is time for a more inclusive concept of community to take root. Maybe the food service workers got such strong student support last year because they feed us dinner every night. Or maybe students are becoming aware that, like others in the community, their voices are not always heard when they stand alone...
...gathers up an entire state of people and brings them to one emotional place. In other regions of the country enamored of college football, there is never just one rallying point, and almost always a cluster of them. For no matter how dominant the University is, some will always root for State, never mind A & M. Over in Omaha, Creighton has stirred a certain passion for basketball, but to most Nebraskans this must seem as wrongheaded as when Creighton dropped football in the '40s. On the farm lands, in the sandhills, across the cattle country, through the Platte River...