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...From the very beginning she fought for equality," said Sissela Bok, Myrdal's daughter and a professor of Ethics at Brandeis University, said yesterday. She said that her mother worked for many causes but did not abandon...
What began as an especially malicious round of the "Thayer sucks, Holworthy bites" war of verbs had escalated into a classwide snowball fight of avalanche proportions. Yet the sight of hundreds of impassioned first-year Harvardians clashing and writhing about the snow-packed ground with reckless abandon, was not just an example of the old run-of-the-mill Veritas spirit. No, this was a rare attack of the Wild Weather Syndrome--the third to hit the Yard this year...
...enjoyed. Muti, conductor laureate of London's Philharmonia Orchestra, declared that Philadelphia would have to share his services with other leading musical organizations; indeed, later this year he will also become director of Milan's La Scala opera house. Muti even voiced the heretical notion that the orchestra should abandon its historic home, the Academy of Music, and build a larger hall, better equipped for television and more acoustically suitable to symphonic music. By the time Ormandy died at 85 last March, the Philadelphia sound he had nurtured for so long had practically ceased to exist...
SPACE CENTER, Houston--The disaster of space shuttle Challenger, in contrast to the stunning success of Voyager's fly-by of the planet Uranus, will sharpen the argument that the U.S. should abandon manned missions and instead send robots to explore the universe, scientists said yesterday...
...would feel very badly now if we would try to abandon the shuttle," said Ellis Miner, JPL's deputy project scientist for Voyager 2. "We have no way of launching anything to the planets except for the space shuttle...