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...Harvard has one completion for more than 30 yards all season. Vin Ferrara has a strong arm and is probably aching to throw a long bomb at least once this season. Even if the Crimson feels that the deep pass is not one that it can routinely complete, Harvard should use it as a bluffing mechanism. Harvard had the ball against Dartmouth with 19 seconds to go in the first half and one timeout left. Murphy had Ferrara kneel down. In the language of Dick Vitale, "Throw the rock, baabbbyyy...
...Each arm of the University has different policies dealing with outside professional activities and the possibilities for conflict of interest, but for the most part, the regulations are all similar to those...
PHILIP BANKS DEVELOPED HIS BELIEF IN the "long arm of supervision" while growing up in Harlem and Brooklyn. Even when his father, a truck driver, was away on a trip and his mother was off cleaning other people's homes, neighbors would come over to supervise, scold and soothe. "You always felt like someone was watching," recalls Banks, 53. When he became a father of three boys, he kept close watch and joined the neighborhood block association to help others. His strategy for keeping his children out of trouble: Stick close. "I went to school on PTA night. If there...
...oddest features of the plan is the proposal for redressing the region's lopsided balance of power. The U.S. intends to ask the Bosnian Serbs to give up some of their heavy weapons; if they don't, the Americans want to use soldiers and civilian contractors to arm and train the Bosnian Muslim army. The Administration seems convinced that troops can do this and still remain evenhanded peacekeepers; critics say it's the fastest way to destroy the perception of neutrality, and the surest strategy for provoking the Serbs and Croatians. Perry, Christopher and Shalikashvili seemed unruffled by such issues...
...change within a proliferation of petty baronies and bishoprics has buried in paper nearly every major reform effort. A growing view holds that the U.N. must be reinvented--pardon the expression--in a basic way. Declares Dragoljub Najman, a native Yugoslav who worked in the U.N.'s cultural arm for 30 years: "It's become too large, it's underfinanced, and it's under serious fire. The question you must ask yourself then is whether the U.N. is not headed toward some kind of disaster. I think the answer is probably yes." U.S. Ambassador Madeleine Albright phrases the choice bluntly...