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...what may have been interpreted as a spiteful move all of the Black student organizations last semester refused to bite. Although they have recently reconsidered, choosing to accept funding from the Foundation for lack of anything more palatable, the fact that the boycotts occurred at all indicates a tragic gap between what students want and what they have been forced to accept...
...issued a warrant for his arrest. Dubberstein, however, had not turned fugitive. His body was found in his friend's apartment, where, investigators said, he had put a shotgun to his head and killed himself. That was no confession of guilt, of course. But it was a tragic way of pleading nolo contendere...
Living With Nuclear Weapons may well have little practical impact: the disproportion between man's ability to eliminate nuclear arms and nuclear arms' capacity to eliminate man is the most tragic irony of the nuclear age. But if the first four decades of coexisting with nuclear weaponry proves anything, it is this: man cannot diminish the likelihood of nuclear holocaust until he comes to grips intellectually with the complexity of the problem and rejects the easy panaceas of both the Left and the Right. The authors of Living With Nuclear Weapons recognize this; perhaps one day they will be looked...
...Erofeev is Sheherezade, avoiding one thousand and one train fares by telling obscene stories to chief Ticket Inspector Semyonych. He is Oedipus, parrying the ribald riddles of a drunken Sphinx. He is Dante descending through the Moscow circles of Hell, his Virgil a bottle of Stolychnaya. And in the tragic denouement, Erofeev becomes Christ on Golgotha, crying out in anguish "Why, oh Lord, did you forsake...
...sore thumb," says Harris, whose lawyer last week filed a motion for a new trial. She hopes to prove that she was mentally incompetent during some of the proceedings. "I did not murder Hy [Tarnower]," insists Harris. "There is a difference between murdering and killing. It was a tragic accident." It will be another two months before the Westchester County court decides whether a new trial is warranted. Meanwhile, life in prison continues for Harris, who celebrated her 60th birthday over the weekend. Now living in a special house with private rooms at New York's Bedford Hills Correctional...