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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Central America)
Sun Feb 13 04:22:58 1994
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 1994 04:22:39 -0500
From: Central America <root@charon.MIT.EDU>
To: ca-mtg@charon.MIT.EDU
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sbasu (Sumit Basu):
the best gesture of my brain is less than
your eyelids' flutter which says
we are for each other: then
laugh, leaning back in my arms
for life's not a paragraph
And death i think is no parenthesis
--e. e. cummings
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| 8:00 | | | | | | | |
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| 9:00 | | | | 6.170L | | | |
| | | | | 34-101 | | | |
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| 10:00 | | 6.170L | 6.170R | 6.012R | 6.170R | 6.012R | |
| | | 34-101 | 24-407 | 13-4101 | 24-407 | 13-4101 | |
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| 11:00 | | SQUASH | | SQUASH | | | |
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| 1:00 | | 21M051L | 6.033R | 21M051 | 6.033R | 21M051 | |
| | | 3-462 | 26-302 | 3-462 | 26-302 | 3-462 | |
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| 2:00 | | 6.033L | 21W760 | 6.033L | 21W760 | 6.033L | |
| | | 34-101 | 1-132 | 34-101 | 1-132 | 34-101 | |
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| | | | | 21M051B | | | |
+-------+---------+---------+---------| 2-190 |---------+---------+---------+
| 4:00 | | | 6.012T +---------+ | 21M051B | |
| | | | 38-485 | | | PIANO L | |
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sjens (Steven Jens):
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sorokin (Jessie Stickgold-Sarah):
This is for SIPB.
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Report of the Fourteenth Subcommittee on
Convening A Discussion Group
Marge Piercy
This is how things begin to tilt into change,
how coalitions are knit from strands of hair,
of barbed wire, twine, knitting wool and gut,
how people ease into action arguing each inch,
but the tedium of it is watching granite erode.
Let us meet to debate meeting, the day, the time,
the length. Let us discuss whether we will sit
or stand or hang from the ceiling or take it lying
down. Let us argue about the chair and the table and
the chairperson and the motion to table the chair.
In the room fog gathers under the ceiling and thickens
in every brain. Let us form committees spawning
subcommittees all laying little moldy eggs of reports.
Under the grey flourescent sun they will crack
to hatch scuttling lizards of more committees.
The Pliocene gathers momentum and fades.
The earth tilts on its axis. More and more snows
fall each winter and less melt each spring.
A new ice age is pressing the glaciers forward
over the floor. We watch the wall of ice advance.
We are evolving into molluscs, barnacles
clinging to wood and plastic, metal and smoke
while the stale and flotsam-laden tide of rhetoric
inches up the shingles and dawdles back.
This is true virtue: to sit here and stay awake,
to listen, to argue, to wade on through the muck
wrestling to some momentary small agreement
like a pinhead pearl prized from a dragon-oyster.
I believe in this democracy as I believe
there is blood in my veins, but oh, oh, in me
lurks a tyrant with a double-bladed ax who longs
to swing it wide and shining, who longs to stand
and shriek, You Shall Do as I Say, pig-bastards.
No more committees but only picnics and orgies
and dances. I have spoken. So be it forevermore.
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starflt (Derrick Kong):
Articles of Federation
We the intelligent life-forms of the United Federation of Planets
determined:
To save succeeding generations from the scourge of intra-galactic war
which has brought untold horror and suffering to our planetary social
systems, and
To reaffirm faith in the fundamental intelligent life-form rights, in
the dignity and worth of the intelligent life-form person, to the equal
rights of male and female and of planetary social systems large and
small, and
To establish conditions under which justice and mutual respect for the
obligations arising from the treaties and other sources of
interplanetary law can be maintained, and
To promote social progress and better standards of life in larger
freedom,
And to these ends:
To practice benevolent tolerance and live together in peace with one
another as good neighbors, and
To unite our strength to maintain intra-galactic peace and security, and
To ensure by the acceptance of principles and the institution of methods
that armed force shall not be used except in the common defense, and
To employ intra-galactic machinery for the promotion of the economic and
social advancement of all intelligent life-forms,
have resolved to combine our efforts to accomplish these
aims.
Accordingly, the respective social systems, through representatives
assembled on the planet Babel, who have exhibited their full powers to
be in good and due form, have agreed to these Articles of Federation of
the United Federation of Planets, and do hereby establish an
interplanetary organization to be known as the United Federation of
Planets.
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