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...that barrier must tumble if Harvard is to live up to its policy of treating all students as equal and free-thinking individuals. Just as the Faculty recently expressed concern about denying Harvard students free speech rights guaranteed to the public, we all should bemoan campus living restrictions that would be considered ridiculous in the real world...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Why Not? | 3/8/1990 | See Source »

BROTHERLY Love Dept.: As much as we like to bemoan the lack of security on the Harvard campus, I doubt that any of us would like to see Harvard adopt the measures currently employed at the University of Pennsylvania...

Author: By John L. Larew, | Title: The Boutique Returns | 10/11/1989 | See Source »

...retaliation for the U.S. bombing of Libya in April persuaded most of the few remaining Westerners to leave. Explains George Miller, a professor at American University of Beirut, who has lived in Lebanon for 40 years: "We stayed until there was no longer any hope." Those who remain behind bemoan the university's deteriorating academic standards and the lawlessness of campus life. "We've had students demand better grades at gunpoint," laments a Lebanese professor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lebanon Grenades Are Bad for Business | 5/19/1986 | See Source »

...could bemoan the loss of a man who is smart and ambitious enough to be President, a man who could only fall prey to his slight stature, his high-pitched voice, and a deadpan wit that would make him the hit of a Harvard party but an ass in Austin...

Author: By Michael W. Hirschorn, | Title: Politics and Family | 1/4/1985 | See Source »

...qualified to be Vice President? Ferraro is the first to admit that she is being considered mainly because of her gender, not her qualifications. But she adds, "If I weren't capable of doing the job, I wouldn't be talked about." Naysayers bemoan her lack of expertise in arms control and foreign policy. Ferraro feels the Budget Committee has been a crash course on the economy ("I can debate that with anyone"), and working on the Democratic platform has refined her views on other domestic issues. A trip this year to Central America produced strong doubts about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Rising Star from Queens | 6/4/1984 | See Source »

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