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Kahn, in fact, admits to a built-in bias in favor of Harvard. "I liked my 25th reunion, and I go to football games and yell my head off." Although he does not publicly discuss controversial questions about this University, it seems that he is in general agreement with the way Harvard administrators run the place. "I've found enough," he says, "to justify my original premise that Harvard was and still is a fine educational institution...
...white dress with a jeweled belt before it hit the runway. In five days the store sold copies of more than 400 dresses ($90 to $175) and 300 coats ($160 to $495), plus hundreds of shoes and berets. Favorite accessory: a six-foot-long floating Isadora Duncan sea of bias silk twill. One item too special for mass reproduction: Valentino's hand-painted stockings, which sell Rome for $50 a pair. Reason, said Lord & Taylor, is that they are too fragile and too perishable...
...little to be said for it. Nichols applies a certain technical craft to the play, but nothing so purposeful as a concept. Anticipating reactions the like of the Dean's, he might have attempted to illuminate the play's historical pageantry, or to point up its underlying political bias. Instead he has opted for a kind of Hallmark Hall of Fame melodrama stirred into the hark-back sentimentality of I Remember Mama...
...Research Bias...
Much of the work was channeled through the now defunct Center for Research and Development in Educational Differences. Federally funded, the Center was disbanded this year because the Office of Education disagreed with the research bias, preferring programs that promised concrete results, such as new curricula or educational devices...