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...earth's surface bump, jostle and sometimes slide underneath each other, carrying the continents along with them. This activity often arouses the earth's volcanoes, most of which lie near plate boundaries. The core evidence discovered by Kennett and Thunell has given further weight to a viewpoint shared by an increasing number of scientists: that all major changes occurring in or above the earth-including variations in climate-are closely interrelated and must always be considered as part of a chain of global events...
...timing could hardly have been worse-or better, depending upon one's viewpoint. Shortly after Secretary of State Henry Kissinger flew from Washington last week to begin the most crucial Middle East negotiations he has undertaken so far, a small band of seaborne Palestinian commandos in a rubber dinghy landed on the Israeli coast at Tel Aviv. The havoc they caused, in a daring and bloody raid on Israel's biggest city, complicated Kissinger's already difficult chances for bringing about a second-stage disengagement agreement between Israel and Egypt...
Jackson's political viewpoint defies easy categorization. Says he: "I am a composite of many different things. I don't worry about ideologies. I've been called a Communist, a socialist, a conservative." Yet his views actually have been largely consistent through the years, so much so that some people suspect that his mind is closed to new ideas. On domestic issues, he has shown himself to be a middle-of-the-road Democrat: backing labor but friendly to business, backing conservation but fighting against "environmental extremists," backing social legislation but opposing radical solutions. On questions...
...those box-within-box amusements: Sutcliffe, as a character in a novel by Blanford, cracks up in the process of writing a novel in which he misinterprets the situations of some of his friends, other Blanford characters. These convolutions lead to the expectable mild ironies of viewpoint, but the plot is too sketchily developed to constitute the novel's reason for being. It seems rather to be a private joke at which Durrell, smiling at his own writerish tics, then smiles at himself smiling at himself...
From a fan's viewpoint, it was the most tedious game of the season, but it was enough to keep intact Harvard's perfect ECAC (11-0) and Ivy League (6-0) records, as the Crimson skated to an easy 4-2 victory over a docile Dartmouth squad last night at Watson...