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...many, including several Independent candidates, say they think there are simply not enough CCA votes to alter the balance. "It'll be closer than usual, but it won't be different when everything gets added up," one former Independent councilor said. "All those people draw on the same voters, and there are only so many people in West Cambridge (a CCA stronghold...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Incumbent Crane's Withdrawal May Boost CCA Council Bid | 7/3/1981 | See Source »

...electoral mandate, the President last week threw down the gauntlet to Congress. Said Ronald Reagan at his press conference: "I am asking Congress today to deliver to my desk before the August recess not one, but two bills-a spending bill and a tax bill." Determined to alter the direction of Federal Government and, as he put it, "rescue the economy from high inflation and high unemployment," Reagan has become impatient with those Congressmen who have flinched at supporting his new economic proposals. "There is no longer any reason to delay," he insisted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Battles on Two Fronts | 6/29/1981 | See Source »

...Raiders is a director's movie. Aside from keeping pace with the plot, there is little to be done for the actors short of giving wonderfully telling looks. That is not to cut anyone down. Everyone, from Belloq (who comes off looing like Francois Truffaut's alter ego) or Toht have distinctive characteristics that are easily enough identified, and a hint of more. But if more were delivered, it would only weigh the movie down. For it is Spielberg's sense of timing that propels Raiders into the realm of the magnificent. He is a master of setting an audience...

Author: By Thomas Hines, | Title: Careening Classic | 6/26/1981 | See Source »

...adjust or arbitrate" it. Once Epps' committee and/or the Faculty Council have approved the constitution, it will be submitted to students for ratification. If 3100 students (a majority of the undergraduate student body) ratify the document, the full Faculty must vote on it because the Dowling proposals would alter student-Faculty committees, and then Corporation approval would be required before the University could fund the council...

Author: By Alan Cooperman, | Title: Just Another Bureaucracy? | 6/4/1981 | See Source »

Putnam, however, added that his personal support of a policy change did not mean that "the Corporation would unilaterally alter its policy without first consulting the Harvard community." Putnam also reassured students that he would not interfere with the independent review of Harvard's bank-loan policy being conducted by the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR...

Author: By Linda S. Drucker, | Title: The Keeper of the Keys | 6/4/1981 | See Source »

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