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This week, however, these avid flyers will be staying on the ground for a while to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the Boston Harvard Air Meet, one of the world's first international air meets. This series of events will be the first program of its kind that the club has sponsored...
Congratulations on a superb piece of writing. I'm quite an avid reader and don't recall a better-written article depicting my midwestern idea of the Harvard mind. You certainly hit "the nail on the head," and gave me a chance to laugh at myself and my own attitudes toward the eastern blueblood...
...fate of another Soviet diplomat in New Delhi also raised concern last week. On March 17, Igor Gezha, 37, a third secretary, vanished near Lodi Gardens, where he customarily jogged early in the morning. Indian police wondered if Gezha, who was known to have an avid interest in Hinduism, might have defected and joined a religious organization. They also did not rule out a possible connection with the Khitrichenko shooting. Early this week it was announced that Gezha had defected to the United States embassy in New Delhi where he was granted political asylum...
...foosball table doesn't look like more than a miniature soccer field, with its two teams of 11 plastic or wood men attached to eight metal rods. But when there are four avid players gathered round, pushing, pulling and jamming the ball past the opposite team, the table might as well be of a world soccer championship...
...avid supporter of what the United Nations represents, my attention was caught by your article on the model U.N. conference which took place at Harvard recently. I admire the effort made by the model United Nations Group but I must point out that there are some things about the U.N. that are not worth imitating, particularly its waste of funds. I find the arrival of delegates in Cadillacs, for example somewhat distasteful in light of the ongoing international tragedy in the Third World. It seems to me that as a delegate one could get caught up in all the glamour...