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Turk says he also objects to what he terms the erosion of the Agassiz and Riverside neighborhoods as Harvard expands its holdings there. He adds selling more apartments to affiliates would all but absorb those areas into the campus...

Author: By D. JOSEPH Menn, | Title: The Latest Town Gown Housing Battle | 12/15/1984 | See Source »

Even before the 1984 election was decided, we had a glimpse of things to come-for the surges affect both parties, will go on and are certain to change our political culture to absorb the new cultures. Perhaps the best way of telling the story of what happened in 1984, and what is likely to happen by 1988, is to go, step by step, through the forces that rocked this strange year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election '84: The Shaping of the Presidency 1984 | 11/19/1984 | See Source »

...other, Sade leans casually against a pedestal. The other players in the historical drama form a ring. Behind them are the rest of the patients, sitting on benches beneath X-shaped projections that could be gallows or crucifixes. Beyond the stage sits the audience, who must absorb Weiss's ideas and interpret them. But the actual audience is not that far removed from the madhouse. As the inmates bang at the bars confining them, they practically touch us. Their wretched plight is ours; we are all part of one big batty family...

Author: By Jane Avrich, | Title: One Big Batty Family | 11/15/1984 | See Source »

Japan's export industries are so strong that the country is expected to pile up a $33 billion trade surplus in 1984. It is an embarrassment of riches that Japan does not know how to absorb. Said Yoshino: "We are not able to invest in our own economy all that we have earned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jumping for Joy in the Pacific | 11/12/1984 | See Source »

...graduate student in statistics at Harvard in 1970. Rubin likes working in Cambridge, which he describe as "an exciting and intellectually active area." Currently he is tearing down the inside new house in Newton and caring for his children which, he says "absorb the time that used to be for hobbies...

Author: By Donald B. Rubin, | Title: Statistics From a Practical Perspective | 10/17/1984 | See Source »

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