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There is, in fact, little protection. Patrol boats shadow convoys, but air cover seldom extends south of the frontier. Once in Cambodian waters, the freighters take aboard a Cambodian pilot and a navy radio operator who tunes in on military frequencies for word of fighting around the bends in the snaking river. "I watch the pilot and the radio operator," says Captain Lo. "When I see them put on their helmets and flak jackets, I do the same. That's all we can do−and hope for the best...
...students can create their own educational plan?or chaos?from a smorgasbord of electives. The old, tough discipline is gone. The Jesuits themselves, clad in everything from jeans to wide-lapel sports jackets, often look like older versions of the students. A generation ago, young men and women could seldom share the same campus; now they sleep in the same dorms, and not always separately. Even so, the defenders of the new Jesuit-college style in the U.S. insist that the schools still offer an atmosphere different from that of secular campuses. Explains Richard Matre, a layman and dean...
...requires some candor to admit that policy decisions are usually not made through application of the scientific method, in which facts are gathered, and integrating theory is developed, the theory is tested, and finally the policy which that theory dictates is put into practice. Regretfully, a policy maker seldom has sufficient facts at his disposal to use the scientific method fruitfully. Facts are expensive to gather; policy makers lack sufficient time to digest all the facts, even if they are gathered; and, the accuracy of supposed facts is always subject to question. Most importantly, the press of time is always...
...which he believes have become overwhelming and unrealistic. The family used to play a major part in the education of the young, he points out. Now, however, both father and mother are often away at work. "The home closes down during the day," notes one economist. Meanwhile, children are seldom hired even for part-time jobs, and the role of the school has been enlarged "to fill the vacuum that changes in the family and workplace created...
These stories represent an almost too successful literary strategy of simulated monotony. Like the films of his fellow countryman Antonioni, Moravia's near fantasies are surreal studies of boredom at point of hysteria. There is little sense of time or place. Moravia's women seldom have names. They seem to inhabit a kind of limbo, a never land of listlessness. Often they are rich, like the antiheroine of I Haven't Time, who is the seventh-best-dressed woman in the world. But their money buys them nothing they want because they really have no wants they...