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...evaluating programs this Spring. They want programs that can pull their own weight. We're using their cars and supplies and not paying for it. I think they would have given us the axe anyway," said Timothy J. Laing '75, co-director...
...programs is less than tragic. Certainly, forcing Harvard to confront the realities of its connection with Washington is a good thing. But the sudden sharpness with which the cuts were performed is inexcusable. We take strong exception to the bureaucratic indifference with which the executive branch adopted the meat-axe approach in curtailing the areas of academic work that had previously been Federally supported...
...food-processing firm was recently found guilty of unfair labor practices. Yet other factors may keep her in her present post. "Can you imagine firing a Mexican woman?" asked a Presidential assistant incredulously. In general, dismissals will be staggered so that no one will appear to be getting the axe. Hopefully, it will all look like attrition...
...good people--Kael (The New Yorker), Hatch (Nation), Kauffmann (New Republic), and Sarris (Village Voice)--each have an axe to grind, and make no bones about grinding it. Kael has a perversely radical culture-consciousness, loving most those films which, rooted to a trashy crowd-pleasing base, manage to transcend it. Simon is a classicist, and treats film with the same stern regard as theater; his occasional fault is literary pretension. Hatch and Kauffmann retain the social concern of the more serious '50's liberals, while Sarris's devotion to the Great God Cinema is at least more passionate...
Doherty suggested to the jury that none of the six officers who testified that Harrison was on the steps next to Matthews "had an axe to grind" in the case...