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...spite of all this, an administration sourcesays that, at Harvard, Marius is untouchable. He'sa visible author, a solid teacher, and a reliablefundraiser for the University, administrators...
...moment too soon. In spite of highly visible and rapidly spreading collection programs, and the surprising willingness of Americans to sort their trash, the national recycling effort is deeply troubled. With comprehensive recycling programs in 40 states, and the number of communities offering such programs jumping from 50 to over 4,000 in the past three years, cities and municipalities now collect far more of some items than the recycling industry can handle -- materials such as high-grade white paper, computer paper, green glass and plastics. That means that the bottles, milk jugs and catalogs that are diligently separated into...
...goes the premise of "Demolition Man," the new action movie starring Stallone and Snipes as a supercop and a supercrook who are cryogenically frozen in the year 1996 (that's right, three years from now) and then let loose to do battle in the utopian year 2032. In spite of this promisingly elaborate premise, the filmmakers forsake any attempt at an original or engaging story in favor of a tiresome series of jabs at flakey Californian political correctness...
...life in a factory town after all the factories have closed. The tirade is against General Motors, unemployment, and as the opening warning indicates, "explicit corporate behavior." Striking a hard blow to the American Dream, Moore sardonically rejoices in the establishment of nine new Taco Bells in Flint, in spite of the increase in layoffs...
...spite of the overwhelmingly positive tone of the announcement, we are bemused by a comment by Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57, who said that "this has been part of a long-term project on the part of the department...It's not something that's just come up overnight." Correct, this issue has been around for 21 years; the athletics staff only made a large enough stink about it last semester, though...