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...root of the problem is Mexicali, just across the border from Calexico. In only a generation, it has grown from 25,000 to a city of 700,000 people. But its municipal facilities have not kept up. Mexicali uses the New River as well as the nearby Alamo as all-purpose sewers for everything from toilets to slaughterhouses. After the New River leaves Mexico with its vile cargo, it meanders for about 55 miles through California's agriculture-rich Imperial Valley before emptying into the Salton Sea, center of a popular recreation area...
...fall of 1968, Robert S. Brustein, dean of the Yale School of Drama, showed up in Cambridge with the wife and kids to root for Old Eli in the Harvard-Yale game. But the Brustein family found the Cambridge fans' enthusiasm more to their liking and ended up waving a Crimson pennant instead...
...issue is of course at root a question of the necessity for a professional theater company here. Many voices have been loudly raised against this spectre of "professionalization," but I am not sure where some of those who argue against professional schooling or academic specialization of one sort or another think they have chosen to go to school. Despite what the Admissions Office might say, and as our own experiences in innumerable petty situations will attest, Harvard is hardly just a liberal arts college. To act as if Harvard College equals Harvard University--and that undergraduate opinion and requirements should...
...little too late. All the economic and geopolitical reasoning on his behalf cannot paper over the fact that the widespread discontent is the result of 25 years of unprecedented repression and bad government practices. The Shah cannot solve problems when his people perceive him to be the very root of these problems. For Americans, all this is a sobering lesson on the perils of backing a dictatorship...
...Arabia a secret interpretation of Communism conforming to the teaching of Islam?" Publicly the Saudi leaders are keeping their cool; privately they are enraged at the Egyptian attacks. "When Sadat dies," sneers a Saudi businessman, "the Egyptian people will dig up his bones and piss on them." At the root of the quarrel is Sadat's bitterness at the Saudis for failing to support the Camp David accords. With Saudi help, Sadat believes, at least one or two other moderate Arab states could be enticed into joining or supporting the peace process, and that in turn could eventually lead...