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Harvard continues to purchase land, build buildings and alter its physical surroundings in the three cities...
...center of the dispute are 13 "freedom" demands that-if adopted -would radically alter the system of team ownership of players by abolishing the option clause, the "Rozelle rule" and other procedures that have severely limited a player's opportunity to move from team to team. The option clause requires a veteran to play out his contract, then put in another year at 90% of his previous season's salary before he can join a new team. According to the Rozelle rule, named after N.F.L. Commissioner Alvin ("Pete") Rozelle, a team that loses a player must be compensated...
...Watergate trial of six former Nixon aides? In fact, the issue on which the U.S. Supreme Court begins final deliberations this week is far more complex and far reaching. The ultimate ruling-and how Nixon responds to it-may vitally affect the impeachment proceedings and conceivably could alter the constitutional relationship between the Judicial and Executive branches of government...
Americans have always had mixed feelings about their press. In folklore, the reporter is Superman's alter ego, but he is also the Front Page cynic who would trade in his grandmother for a scoop. By way of a more elevated example, almost everybody (at least among journalists) remembers Jefferson's famous remark that if he had to choose between a government without newspapers and newspapers without a government, he would pick the latter. But few recall that Jefferson also wrote on another occasion: "Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper...
...years now, Maeve Brennan's sharp-eyed alter ego, "the Long-Winded Lady," has been posting bulletins about the city and its inhabitants in The New Yorker's "Talk of the Town" section. A self-styled "traveler in residence," she has always been able to turn quite ordinary things-two people looking in a store window, a small parade, a cat crouching under a parked van-into "moments of recognition." Her old-fashioned method is the unabashed use of straight description, as in A Snowy Night on West Forty-Ninth Street, the one New York story in Christmas...