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Still, Soviet society has its positive side, Schecter says, his voice assuming a matter-of-fact, almost exasperated tone, as if he is repeating the answer for the umpteenth time. "Look," he says, "in the Soviet Union, everybody is taken care of. No one is starving out on the streets. People aren't living in slums. There is racism, but that's another problem altogether. Racism is much more complex there than here, because its based on differences between nationalities and republics. That's a lot different than white versus black...
...inaccuracies it's ridiculous." And to combat the charges he has instructed students and faculty to read a copy of a speech he delivered at a Seattle luncheon without noting that several of the more controversial statements reported in the Times account originated from a late afternoon question-and-answer session Kilbridge held before a different audience. Such action, hardly designed to build a bond of trust, underlines a disturbingly pervasive lack of communication--evident in remarks Kilbridge and GSD students traded in a meeting last week. Similarly, the uproar over the Times story is most significant as an index...
...ergometer, you see, is the rowing world's answer to running in place. It is a machine which simulates on-the-water rowing, with two notable exceptions. First, the machine doesn't go anywhere so the rower is in a constant upstream battle to maintain his or her power throughout the "erg-piece." And the second damning quality of this mainstay-in-the-winter-wonderland-of-rowing is its ability to spit back a "strength score" into the face of the vanquished rower...
...Byerly Hall. That connection may be established through family, friends or previous visits to the United States--as the careers of these freshmen indicate--or in other, unknown ways. "We ask on the application how students learned about Harvard, but that's a loaded question. They give us the answer they think we'd like to hear, that it's known all over the world, has famous professors, etc.," Malin notes...
...delivery of an offbeat lecture does not explain the scene, and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences has not yet seen fit to add courses in highway safety to its curriculum. Rather, the occasion is a morning section of English E, "English as a Foreign Language," Harvard's answer to the needs of many foreign students and faculty members seeking to hone their oral and written skills in the English language...