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...even a small extra expense can spell disaster. And the matter seemed anything but small this summer when Scott Weiner '84, a financial aid recipient, found that Harvard expected him to pay $242 more every month than he paid last year. In fact, for a while he thought the barrier would prove insurmountable. "I don't know what will happen," he says now, though he is returning to school to try. "I don't think there's any way I can earn what they...
...number of students complained last spring that the new council's constitution had been ratified almost by accident; with two-thirds approval and a 50 percent turnout needed for ratification, the constitution only passed the second barrier because "no" voters had pushed the turn-out level past the halfway mark. These opponents bemoaned that if they had all abstained instead, the government would have failed...
...findings and Home Secretary William Whitelaw's report on it to the Commons last week were harshly critical of palace security. Since the murder in 1979 of Earl Mountbatten, the Queen's cousin, by Irish terrorists, $3.5 million has been spent on electronic beams, microwave barrier fences, closed-circuit TV, remote-controlled locks, reinforced doors and other security measures at Buckingham Palace. Yet Fagan was able to move about at will. The worst failings, however, were human ones. "If police officers had been alert and competent," said Dellow's report sharply, "Fagan would have been apprehended well...
...short time, the Iranians held the pumping station that feeds river water into the lake, but they were soon beaten back by an Iraqi counterattack. Once again in Iraqi hands, the pumps are pouring thousands of gallons into Fish Lake, thereby increasing the size of the water barrier against an enemy armored thrust...
...show has had its share of artistic problems. Sea breezes used to ruffle the models' clothes until someone devised a stiffener to make them lie flat. Unclothing was even more of a challenge in a more circumscribed age. When a director broke the modesty barrier by offering to pay nude models $10 a night, critics objected to this violation of volunteerist esprit de corps. Nowadays women and men of all ages are only too willing to bare all for Laguna. Indeed, a 1969 nude volunteer named Cathe Mennen is enshrined as a heroine of the pageant. While she posed...