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James J. Miller, associate director of financial aid at Harvard, said this week the plan allows Cornell to adapt to financial limitations without discriminating against disadvantaged students. He added that Harvard officials have not yet decided what policy the University will use if forced to limit...
...small ones. You feel the rumble, but that is about all. Five years ago, the water in the pool flowed back and forth, and we had to fill it. But I try not to panic my tenants. We have an ideal climate here. We are close to everything. You adapt." Adds David G. Edwards, director of mental-health services in the county: "I have not treated a single case of earthquake anxiety yet." Edwards works in Hollister but lives 40 miles away in Monterey, out of prime temblor territory...
...cast of Wanda June cannot be blamed for its weakness. Inspired acting saves the play from utter despair as the actors attempt to adapt the material But the acting ultimately only frustrates the audience, which wants to see more of their wares and less of their struggling to convey the play's tangled plot...
...teams have been winnowed to four for the semifinals, and Oliphant derides his Yale opponents' argument that drug abuse proves society's failure to adapt to change. "We are still waiting for their clear evidence of social breakdown," he says, "and all we get is 'drugs.' " "I wish we would get drugs," chirps an audience member. There is laughter and desk bashing. Yale's Brian Peterson tries anecdote. "I can't adapt to Reagan," he says, "I can't adapt to the fact that my federal scholarship money is gone...
...private an unparalleled chum of every special interest, is in public a protector of the common man against, "pervasive government power." Huntington, discussing political reforms introduced by the progressives, quotes historian Ted Lowi: "The perpetual bane of the reformer's existence is the ease with which the party leaders adapt new structures to the old purposes...