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...this week, the council leadership's political fervor on international issues went out of control. When a Harvard alumnus told Subramanian about plans to organize demonstrations to prevent the resignation of Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the council chair convened an emergency meeting of several council leaders. Three of these leaders, acting on their own behalf, attended a rally in Harvard Square to save Gorbachev...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Less Than Zero | 2/5/1990 | See Source »

...would anyone who does not mind being tricked and teased by the architecture at almost every turn. The new building (paid for mainly by O.S.U. alumnus and Columbus-based retailer Leslie Wexner) may have been the perfect project for this hyperintellectualizing bad boy to prove himself on: it was conceived by the university as both a museum and a seedbed for avant-garde art, from Anselm Kiefer paintings to Pina Bausch performances to a new video installation that displays images from the building's surveillance cameras. Did the university want a fin-de-siecle monument to erudite monomania, inspired nervousness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: A Crazy Building in Columbus: Peter Eisenman | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

...York for the summer and I was looking for a job in an uptown law firm," Minnesota junior Paul Richards says. "It seems that one of the partners in the firm was a Harvard alumnus and when I mentioned that I was from the University of Minnesota, he responded with a large grin and a 15-minute onslaught of ribbing about the game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE RETURN TO ST. PAUL | 11/10/1989 | See Source »

Perhaps no other team is more on a mission to improve than the Engineers. After ex-Coach Mike Addesa left the school amid controversy last spring, B.U. alumnus and former RIT Coach Buddy Powers was hired for one sole purpose: to return the Engineers to the glory days of the 1980s...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Who are the Contenders... | 11/10/1989 | See Source »

Reardon was named Harvard's athletic director in 1977 only after the original choice, Williams College Athletic Director Robert Peck, refused the job because of opposition by undergraduates and alumni to a non-alumnus being named to the post...

Author: By Jeffrey C. Wu, | Title: Cleary Interviews For A.D. Post | 11/9/1989 | See Source »

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