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Calling the complaints "absurd" and "totally illogical." Krasznekewicz said yesterday he had tried to accomodate everyone and to case the tension that normally surrounds the selection process by joking and playing music...

Author: By Mark L. Goldstein, | Title: Adams House Lottery Results Questioned by Several Residents | 4/17/1981 | See Source »

Michael G. Colantuono '83, secretary of GSA, called Kinal's letters "ridiculously absurd," adding that Kinal's remarks "are an example of those very acts of discrimination and hurled insults that gays at Harvard endure all the time...

Author: By Sandra E. Cavazos, | Title: Club Refuses to Apologize For April Fools Day Poster | 4/7/1981 | See Source »

...when you look at them, what are they? Well mostly they're programs that are sponsored by the milk lobbys and the agricultural lobbys, and they're programs that frequently are not need-oriented. My children, when they were in school, qualified for the free milk program, which is absurd. So I think it's time to reexamine a lot of these programs and point them where the need is, and reduce their inefficiencies and their costs, and I think that's what the president is trying to do. Frequently, he's only reducing the rate of increase. This budget...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Transcript of Weinberger Interview | 3/31/1981 | See Source »

Harvard's Medical Area Total Energy Plant (MATEP) will probably receive an exemption from federal clean air regulations, a spokesman for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said yesterday, prompting opponents of the plant to call the EPA decision "patently absurd...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EPA To Grant MATEP Exemption | 3/18/1981 | See Source »

...need for an American Renewal will not be helped by a resumption of the draft. The notion that we will have a better, more fit Army if it's made up of unwilling soldiers is absurd. The task of national leadership is to restore the love our people have for our system, not to widen the schism of misunderstanding by again pitting generation against generation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 16, 1981 | 3/16/1981 | See Source »

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