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...most remarkable things about the Board is that, in spite of all the changes that have occurred and continue to occur in its structure, and in spite of the changing perceptions of the Board and attitudes toward the appropriateness of exceptions to rules, the enforcement of discipline, etc., the actual work of the Board has remained very consistent over the decades. The Board has always been, from its outset, a group of Faculty members and senior College administrators which strives to understand the circumstances of individual students so as to make, where necessary, those decisions most calculated to help...
...speaking of cocaine dependence, no one dared call it addiction: cocaine's withdrawal symptoms are not physically wrenching, as with heroin and alcohol. Nonetheless, says Dr. David Smith, director of the Haight-Ashbury Free Medical Clinic in San Francisco, "addiction is compulsion, loss of control and continued use in spite of the consequences. Cocaine is very addicting." What is more, and a fact many social snorters refuse to believe, coke can kill its users, and not just those who inject and free-base...
...first actions of this white revolutionary youth movement in the U.S. must be of a symbolic nature because its numbers are now small. They must show that the human spirit is capable of actual fighting even in spite of the peacefulness and obedience we were taught in school...
...spite of her serious intellectual pursuits, Bergvall--like many of the students at Harvard's liberal arts graduate school--quickly shatters the stereotype of a quiet scholar-to-be poring over musty tomes day after...
...spite of these and hundreds of other incidents that can be attributed directly to the Salvadorean government the State Department continues to report that "Whether the Government beats full responsibility for the crimes of certain rightist elements is difficult to establish. To many observers, it is even more difficult to establish that El Salvador has made any substantial human rights progress in 1982. However, the president has duly certified that the government of Roberto d'Aubuisson is fully eligible to receive approximately $125 million in direct military aid in fiscal year...