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Nevertheless, Harvard is working hard to keep abreast of current innovations and has even managed to institute some unique and unprecedented programs...
...project, most also said that they calculated their own taxes, filed their own returns, and struggled valiantly with the quirks and variations of the law. Says Washington Correspondent David Beckwith, who prepares his own forms: "I took two courses in taxation at law school, and I try to keep abreast of major tax developments. Still, I'm one of those fools who overwithholds and gives the Government an interest-free loan of my money. I'm happy though-I got my refund two weeks ago." Los Angeles Reporter Laura Meyers' returns, she says, get ever more complicated...
...largely oblivious to the match's importance prior to that afternoon. Not that it was difficult to keep abreast of what was happening. During the playing of the Brazil game the city of Milan--like cities all over Italy--shut down. Traffic came to a halt, workers stopped working, and the nation's eyes and cars stayed glued to T.V. sets and radios...
Minority organizations within the College are strong, and Sanchez feels that participation in ethnically related activities helps students "keep a perspective on this place." He adds his dancing with a Mexican folk dancing group called Ballet Folklarico de Aztlan is one way he keeps abreast of the Chicano community at Harvard...
...himself unready. He was plunging along a shadowy, midtown street well past midnight only a few hundred feet from a hotel where he often stayed when he worked late in the city. Suddenly, he was aware of a dark figure behind and to the left. Then, farther, off, exactly abreast of him but ten feet away near the buildings, a second figure appeared. That seemed odd, especially since he now noticed there was not another soul on the street. A taxi's brake lights winked in the distance, though, and the pool of light in front of the hotel...