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...Dean Byron S. Hurlbut, class of 1889. Several members of the Harvard administration were even rumored to be Med. Fac. men themselves. So Hurlbut struck a delicate bargain with the club: he would grant amnesty to Joy and his Med. Fac. compatriots—if they would agree to abandon the club forever...
Surprisingly, dozens of Med. Fac. alumni urged their fellow “Doctors” to abandon the society. The alumni felt the Med. Fac.’s puerile destruction no longer had a place in the serious academic environment of an evolved Harvard University...
...screenwriter (Raiders of the Lost Ark) and writer-director (Body Heat), he has performed deft surgery on the Saturday-matinee serial and the film noir melodrama. But the western will not yield. Silverado sprays the buckshot of its four or five story lines across the screen with the abandon of a drunken galoot aiming at a barn door. Though the film interrupts its chases and shootouts to let some fine actors stare meaningfully or spit out a little sagebrush wisdom, it rarely allows them to build the camaraderie that an old cowhand like Gabby Hayes exuded with no sweat. Agreeable...
...page amicus curiae brief asking the court to reverse its 7-to-2 decision. "The basis for Roe vs. Wade, " states the brief, "is so far flawed and is such a source of instability in the law that this court should reconsider that decision and on reconsideration abandon...
...various black African countries and staged a number of border attacks and acts of sabotage. Its present strength is estimated to be about 7,000 armed men, but it suffered a severe setback last year when South Africa and Mozambique signed a nonaggression pact, forcing the A.N.C. to abandon its guerrilla camps in southern Mozambique. More recently, the South African army staged a lightning raid on what it claimed was an A.N.C. installation in Botswana, killing twelve people...