Word: bane
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...following excerpts are from a Crimson roundtable on affirmative action held last week with Mary Jo Bane, associate professor of Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government. Meldon Hollis, administrative aide in Harvard's affirmative action office, and Harvey C. Mansfield '53, professor of Government. Mark E. Feinberg, Laura E. Gomez, and Jonathan S. Sapers moderated the discussion...
America's most influential interior decorators; in Nantucket, Mass. A onetime architecture student at Princeton, the ur bane, diminutive Baldwin emphasized elegance without sacrificing comfort. His clients included Cole Porter, Jacqueline Onassis and Diana Vreeland...
Bankers believe that financial services will eventually be part of futuristic home information packages like Viewtron that supply everything from recipes to movie reviews. Therefore they are scrambling to organize joint ventures with communications firms. Four aggressive regional banks, Florida's Southeast, Ohio's Bane One, North Carolina's Wachovia and California's Security Pacific, have banded together to develop the financial services for Viewtron. Next spring some 20 institutions, including Milwaukee's First Wisconsin National Bank and Seattle's Peoples Bank, will team up with Automatic Data Processing and the Times Mirror communications...
...converse situation--when Harvard's passing against Dartmouth--the matchup won't be so thrilling. Troubles with the air attack--particularly concerning the buttery texture of several receivers' fingers--have been the bane of the Crimson offense. None of quarterback Chuck Colombo's five first-half passes against Cornell were caught last week: replacement Brian White, six-for-13, finally moved Harvard through the air in the last-minute rally that gained a 3-3 tie. Though the decision may have been tougher than usual, Crimson Coach Joe Restic decided to stick with the senior, Colombo, as his starter...
Domestic violence is lethal, and not only to women. A 1978 article in Police Magazine reports that 40% of all police injuries, and 20% of all police deaths on duty, are the result of becoming caught in a family dispute. Risks aside, answering domestic-disturbance calls is the bane of policemen everywhere. "We end it for an hour or two and do a lot of paper work," says Officer Lawrence Santos of Harlem's 25th Precinct. To a frightened woman, though, even a reluctant policeman offers more hope than an insensitive one. Sergeant Louis Mancuso of Manhattan's Ninth Precinct...