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...admit to believing, at least for a moment, in some special quality in Harvard. My moment came and went the summer after my high school graduation. Then, on the advice of a girl-friend, I got hold of a copy of Smithsonian magazine. The magazine, following the summer 1986 bandwagon, published an essay commemorating Harvard's much-ballyhooed 350th anniversary. It was written by a Melvin Maddocks--who like many authors of such pieces boasted a class year...

Author: By Spencer S. Hsu, | Title: The Case Against Club Harvard | 10/30/1989 | See Source »

...process of elimination is the way to do it. Obviously, the Dolphins are out. I'd look silly with a marine mammal on my head. And I'm too cool to jump on a winning bandwagon. Sorry, San Francisco, New Orleans, and Philadelphia. Appreciate the fans you've had from the beginning...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: A Man in Search of a Football Team | 9/26/1989 | See Source »

Reality: The Council jumped on the bandwagon only after more than 1200 first-year students petitioned Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 to abandon the proposed changes in the housing lottery. For the council to claim sole responsibility for the administration's reversal is preposterous...

Author: By John L. Larew, | Title: Lies, Damned Lies, Council Ads | 9/21/1989 | See Source »

...Congress adjourned last week for its August recess, the capital-gains-cut bandwagon gained momentum. Amazingly, Republicans and conservative Democrats, who make up a narrow majority of the House Ways and Means Committee, rallied around a scheme even more shortsighted than the President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Losing Big on Capital Gains | 8/14/1989 | See Source »

...Leadership decisions are too often either made too quickly or too slowly--it's hard sometimes not to jump on the bandwagon and cast your feet in concrete too quickly," Sununu said. "But we have a President who thinks that pace is important, and he thinks that things must be done slowly and significantly...

Author: By Madhavi Sunder, | Title: Sununu Lauds Bush Policies | 5/22/1989 | See Source »

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