Word: benjamin
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...12/11/84) to find the omission of the most newsworthy story that day. The cries of anger and furor issued from the Black students were so forceful I would have expected them to reach the usually acute ears of Crimson editors. These Black students were appalled to find out that Benjamin L. Hooks the executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of colored People(NAACP), came to visit Harvard University and they were not welcome to participate in the event...
...Astrophysicist David Black, who heads NASA'S project to search for other planetary systems, theorized that what McCarthy's team had found was actually a pair of diminutive stars, one of which failed to develop fully and became a celestial relic known as a brown dwarf. Benjamin Zuckerman, professor of astronomy at the University of California, Los Angeles, called the discovery "not quite a planet and not quite a star." George Gatewood, director of the University of Pittsburgh's Allegheny Observatory, agreed: "Planet is the wrong word. Call it what you like. It just doesn...
...risking trouble with antitrust laws, which prohibit firms from selling products at a loss when the effect is to drive out competitors. The Government's decade-long antitrust case against IBM was dropped in January 1982, but a few industry executives, including Apple's Jobs and Benjamin Rosen, chairman of Compaq, are beginning to talk openly about another one. Says Parren Mitchell, chairman of the House Small Business Committee: "Sooner or later, someone is going to complain to the committee about...
...Whom would we hit and where?" asked a State Department official. Other groups, claiming to be associated with the Hizballah, are holding three Americans hostage in Lebanon: U.S. Diplomat William Buckley, first secretary of the embassy's political section; Cable News Network Correspondent Jeremy Levin; and Presbyterian Minister Benjamin Weir. Last week a fourth American disappeared: Peter Kilburn, a librarian at Beirut's American University. A retaliatory raid in Lebanon might seal their fate...
...there's any lesson we should have learned from this election, it's that this is a two party country," said Benjamin I. Hooks, who visited Harvard to commemorate the NAACP's 75th anniversary...