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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mason said the university will allow the investments to expire and will most likely invest in U.S. Treasury bills or in banks that are not active internationally...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: B.U. Will Sell $6.6 Million Of South African Investments | 4/27/1979 | See Source »

...committee also recommended rejection of a bill that would allow Cambridge to strengthen its rent control by outlawing eviction of tenants from apartments for condominium conversion...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Committee Rejects Bills To End City Rent Control | 4/26/1979 | See Source »

Others, however, allow that the lines along which professors divided could be legitimately labeled "conservative" and "liberal" in the context of the time. James Q. Wilson, Shattuck Professor of Government, says the emergence of the caucuses--both liberal and conservative--was basically a healthy, even necessary, development. "It made debate more manageable by providing a forum for the essential conduct of Faculty business," he says...

Author: By Jonathan H. Alter, | Title: On the Right | 4/26/1979 | See Source »

...voices; the chorus of twenty-odd people change costumes roughly five times apiece to portray seventy-eight characters. The most demanding role is that of the narrator-ringmaster, who appears in five different guises, including Voltaire himself. Some of actor William Falk's lines had to be recorded to allow him time to race around the stage and transform himself into another character. Falk seems to be able to handle the various singing styles and characterizations, but the costume changes at times overwhelm him. Right: The Cilbert and Sullivan Players continue their production of "Princess Ida" this weekend at Agassiz...

Author: By Scott A. Rozenberg and Troy Segal, S | Title: The Best of all Possible Locations... ...Pinball's Better in a Fishbowl | 4/26/1979 | See Source »

...Cambridge, Mass., the Harvard -Radcliffe Gay Student Association meets openly every Wednesday night to hear speeches and play readings, and has thrown parties that attracted as many as 300 students from the area. At Harvard Law School, gays have acquired considerable clout; the school now will not allow any law firms that discriminate against homosexuals to use its placement service for employment interviews. But gay students at Harvard Business School still keep their homosexuality a deep secret for fear that it will hurt their employment prospects with major corporations when they graduate. The chairwoman of the Radcliffe Lesbians Association asks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: How Gay Is Gay? | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

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