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...problem," a friend of mine said just before I left for Moscow, "is what country-with the U.S. out because of the boycott-you're going to root...
...friend described it as an island republic in the Pacific composed almost entirely of bird droppings, which its small population exports as phosphates at enormous profit. "In fact," my friend said, "Nauru is literally chipping itself away and will, in time, disappear completely. In the meantime, you can either root for its Olympic team or, failing that, compete in its name...
...activist priests are foreigners, the regime is proposing a tougher immigration law that could cause serious trouble for the missionaries. Though many Brazilians contend that the celibacy requirement is to blame for the difficulty in recruiting priests, the Pontiff believes that a loss of priestly identity is at the root of the problem. With his visit, the Pope offered a stunning demonstration of how he envisions the priestly role: one in which political involvement is carefully limited and thus is all the more effective. As one government official acknowledged last week, "Brazil is not likely to remain the same...
...Soviets but the ideological contradiction that is involved: in a Communist society antisocial behavior should be on the wane. "It hits the regime where it hurts most," says the University of South Carolina's Gordon Smith, who has written extensively on Soviet youth and criminal justice. At the root of the problem are such social ills as alcohol abuse, broken families, crowded living conditions-and boredom. "Drunkenness," says Police Lieut. General Pyotr Oleinik, "is the mother of hooliganism...
...Corporation as readily as zealous student opposition. And with skepticism toward Harvard's South Africa-related investments built into the Corporation, it will be increasingly difficult for Harvard's Fellows to ignore the implications of these holdings, and more unlikely that the controversy will fade away. The Root Of All Evil Harvard's Top 15 Investments IBM $56,900,000 Schlumberger $55,200,000 Exxon $52,600,000 AT&T $51,700,000 Mobil Oil $48,300,000 Standard Oil (Cal.) $45,200,000 Atlantic Richfield $33,000,000 Standard Oil of Indiana $29,500,000 Getty...