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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They openly acknowledge that financial aid information is shared to prevent an "unethical" bidding war over students. As for tuition-fixing, they say their budgets are made in such an open fashion that shared data is almost inevitable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard in Hot Water Over Anti-Trust Laws | 9/11/1989 | See Source »

There was just one snag. Along with the trust fund, Stillman left Harvard an all-too-real forest in upstate New York. Unfortunately, almost no one bothered using the Black Rock forest for research. This left Harvard with a problem: how to get rid of the forest without giving up the trust fund...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Parts With Forest; Trust Fund Remains Intact | 9/11/1989 | See Source »

Roommates. Buddies. Teammates. Harvard football Captain Greg Gicewicz and senior tight end Kevin Collins are, they say, almost brothers...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, | Title: Hungry for One More Season on the Football Field | 9/11/1989 | See Source »

Collins himself is bigger than ever before. On the field in Saturday's scrimmage against Brown he looks almost dominating. It is strange to see a man who looked so small on the basketball court loom so large on the gridiron...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, | Title: Hungry for One More Season on the Football Field | 9/11/1989 | See Source »

...most obvious speculations about Hitler focus on what would have happened if he had met more resistance, from the beginning. While Hitler's will to power seemed almost demoniac in its ferocity, that was partly because he encountered such feeble opposition. Starting in Germany, if the democratic forces had united against him, he would never have come to power. If even just the conservatives had opposed him, he could not have become Chancellor. And if the French had resisted his reoccupation of the Rhineland, his regime would have collapsed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What If . . .? | 9/4/1989 | See Source »

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