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...dubious of competitors' efforts to break onto Wall Street in a big way--because he thinks that "transaction oriented" investment bankers and "relationship oriented" traditional bankers don't mix. He does not, however, think the business is in for a repeat of the serious troubles of the 1980s...
...father’s statements. He said, for instance, that it was Harvard’s “obligation” to pressure rather than host people associated with the ruling regime in Iran. “Harvard led the way in reforming South Africa during the 1980s by applying political and economic pressure,” Tagg Romney said. “Harvard never would have invited a white supremacist or apartheid supporter to speak.” In his talk, Romney focused on his father’s ideals and the qualities that he said made...
...with his aunt. Rounding out the cast is the principal love interest: Julia T. Havard ’11 plays Jim as the romantic foil for both characters in the 1950s. Havard also plays Sarah, Myra’s lover after she inexplicably becomes gay some time in the 1980s...
...People do foolish things, and then they get arrested.” Powers was arraigned Monday on charges of vandalizing property and released on personal recognizance by the judge, according to the Cambridge Chronicle. Battles between the Lampoon and trees are nothing new. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, there were several failed attempts to destroy a tree outside the building. The tree finally died in 1991. “In college, everyone is just grouchy about stupid stuff,” said Alison G. Umminger ’92, the president of the Lampoon at the time...
...Although Turkey has sent troops on similar missions in northern Iraq on up to two dozen previous occasions during the 1980s and 90s, this would be the first such incursion since U.S. forces toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003 and took responsibility for security in Iraq...