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...Mary Jo Bane, deputy assistant secretary of the Department of Education and an associate professor on leave from the Education School, said yesterday she will become an associate professor at the Kennedy School at the start of spring term...
Inconsistency--the bane of last year's women's hoop squad--returned last night to haunt the Crimson in its 78-61 opening-game loss at Bentley...
...maybe it never happened that way. There is more myth than fact to Alexander. Perhaps he was in reality a flocculating maniac (with such a mother, why not?), barely containable to his men, the bane of Hephaestion's existence, Aristotle's worst pupil, and so forth. Who will ever know? There is a sentence on the final wall of the exhibition: "The search continues . . ." It provides the exhibition's one hokey moment, and it is also misleading, suggesting as it does that a continuing search for Alexander will yield something. The tomb may be unearthed eventually...
...debutante just last summer, she had a nationwide coming-out party that cost close to $600,000. But alas, her two-bit shape did her in. The Susan B. Anthony dollar, heralded as a boon to bank tellers and store clerks, turned out to be a bane. Looking and feeling too much like a quarter, she may fare less well than the poker-chip-size Eisenhower dollar and the Jefferson $2 bill. Production of the nickel and copper-alloyed coin has been "temporarily postponed," says the U.S. Mint. Of the 846 million Susan B.s already minted, only 300 million...
Nixon dropped the subject after ten minutes and never returned to it. In retrospect I believe that we should have taken it more seriously. The bane of our military actions in Viet Nam throughout was their hesitancy and inconclusiveness...