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Those interested in the case are invited to obtain the public record, available at Middlesex Superior Court (Civil Action No. 86-2507, McKinney v. Harvard, et al.). The article was also in error when it suggested that I had been a drug dealer. Quite the reverse, I was a nationally respected drug educator, whose curricula materials were used in schools throughout the country, by the Armed Services and the Smithsonian Institution. My pharmaceutical firm extracts the legal drug THC from marijuana plants processed legally abroad...
Harvard's all-male a cappella singing group, the Din and Tonics, hits the stage at Sanders Theater. The Dins will present several new arrangements, including "Brother Can You Spare a Dime" and "Walking My Baby Back Home," along with favorites like "Honeysuckle Rose" and "You Can Call Me Al." The Dins will be joined tomorrow night by Yale's oldest all-female a cappella group, the New Blue, in what promises to be an evening of humorous skits, good music and audience participation...
...other factor is a drop in the number of students who apply to more than one Ivy League school, said Al Quirk, dean of admissions and financial aid at Dartmouth...
Legislators are haunted by the specter of defeated colleagues, even those from another era. Jimmy Carter was still President when House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Al Ullman lost a re-election bid in 1980, in part because of his advocacy of a value-added tax. But nearly a decade later, a Congressman cannot even discuss the possibility of that kind of tax increase without being warned, "Remember what happened to Ullman." Last year, despite the 99% re- election rate, two powerful House Democrats were rejected by the voters. Such dramatic defeats are frightening to legislators, argues G.O.P. Congressman Newt...
These days, Brown feels abandoned by the black and white musicians who became famous by copying his style and gyrating dance techniques. He says, "The only two people who have shown love and respect for James Brown are Little Richard and Al Sharpton," the New York City preacher who stirred up a storm over the purported rape of Tawana Brawley and is now organizing a campaign to gain Brown's early release. Complains Sharpton, who sports a Brown-style hairdo: "The country would never have done this to Elvis...