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...spite of its moments of high comedy, this is the most sobering and illuminating book to be written about Soviet society in decades. Nothing else in print gives so persuasive a picture of moral squalor in everyday life. It is an insider's book, written by a keen observer with special access to legal records and 17 years of experience as a defense attorney and professor of law. Indeed, so great is Simis' expertise that in 1976 KGB men raided his apartment and confiscated an early manuscript version of the book. He was obliged to leave the Soviet...
Individual performances come shining through, in spite of the temptation to simply let songs like "I Want You Back." "Heat Wave," and "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" do the entertaining. Darcel Spear, a 17-year-old show-stopper, consistently executes the best. Her youthful energy explodes on "My Cherie Amour" and "I Heard it Through the Grape Vine." The irony of her singing songs which departed play lists long before she started tuning in radio airwaves makes her performance particularly refreshing. Everett Gibson, a Boston University junior with more muscles in his face than most people have in their...
...spite of the Investment Committee decisions to disregard IPAC's recommendations concerning how Cornell should vote on seven of the nine social issues proxies IPAC dealt with last year, the members of IPAC issued a very optimistic third year evaluation at the end of last spring...
...problem, as the chairman of the special task force that drew up the drunk driving legislation stresses, that some of his committee's most potent legislation failed to gain state legislative approval, in spite of King's support. Which is too bad--the measures that the legislature left by the wayside are needed for any program that realistically hopes to curb drunk drivers. They include laws that would...
...news is that, in spite of those impressive numerical gains, Harvard is taking its women less seriously than ever. Consider the following events of the past week alone...