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...chocolate lover's dream--chocolate-dipped strawberries, rum balls, tortes, biscotti, pecan pie and much more--lured approximately 600 people to the ballroom of the Charles Hotel yesterday...
Harkin enters the ballroom to the cheers ofunion members and the flashes of pocket cameras,shakes hands, waves, sits down to dinner. Theunion leader goes to the podium and starts theintroduction just as the Chicken Kiev is beingserved. This is bad timing, because Harkin willstart speaking to the clinking of silverware,people will stop eating out of politeness, and thechicken and potatoes will grow cold and be leftuneaten...
...club, Robertson tells. The problem was, however, that the club did not allow women as members. After much rumbling from the women, the club eventually devised a plan to let the women cover the speeches: The women reporters were squeezed onto the balcony of the club, outside of the ballroom where the men sat and spoke. They were served no food and were forced to take notes on speeches that were barely audible from such a distance. "It was humiliating," recalls Robertson. She called the balcony "one of the ugliest symbols of discrimination against women to be found...
Notzon said that ballroom dancing has grown in popularity at Harvard and other college campuses, in part due to movies such as "Dirty Dancing" and "Salsa...
Hoang Quan Vu '92, president of the year-old team, said Harvard rates first for ballroom dancing among New England schools, and is estimated to be third in national rankings. He said the team has consistently taken first-or second-place in its seven-tournament history...