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Unlike DSOC bigshot and machinists' union president "Wimpy" Winpisinger who opposes the acts of labor solidarity which could quickly win the air traffic controllers' strike, we call on labor to use its power to shut down the airports to defend the PATCO strikers. While DSOC stands with Polish Solidarity in calling for capitalist restoration in league with the Catholic Church, we unconditionally defend from imperialism those states which have already overthrown capitalism. For those who want to see a fundamental change in society, join the SYL in our fight for international workers revolution to put an end to capitalist oppression...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DSOC and the SYL | 10/26/1981 | See Source »

ENRIQUE LOPEZ, "Hank" to his friends, should never have come to Harvard. Lopez jokes about it. In his last year as an undergraduate at the University of Denver, he explains, a bigshot economics professor took him under his wing, doctored the young man's transcripts to make it look like Lopez had minored in economics, and sent him packing to Cambridge--as a graduate student in Economics. Lopez, who had never really taken any economic theory, went to classes here but, as he put it, "They might have been talking in Swahili." He made it through one year, however...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: The Harvard Mistake | 8/17/1979 | See Source »

ENRIQUE LOPEZ, "Hank" to his friends, should never have come to Harvard. Lopez jokes about it. In his last year as an undergraduate at the University of Denver, he explains, a bigshot economics professor took him under his wing, doctored the young man's transcripts to make it look like Lopez had minored in economics, and sent him packing to Cambridge--as a graduate student in Economics. Lopez, who had never really taken any economic theory, went to classes here but, as he put it, "They might as well have been talking in Swahili." He made it through one year...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: The Harvard Mistake | 6/6/1979 | See Source »

ITHACA, New York--It started, innocently enough, one year ago today. The defending Ivy League bigshot, Harvard, was hosting one of the worst teams in the world, Cornell. Then, quite unfortunately for the Crimson, it started raining. Raining, actually, is not the word for what it was doing that dismal Saturday afternoon in Cambridge. Pouring is more like it, pouring so hard that Harvard's offense was reduced to three yards in the puddle, it's talent advantage totally nullified...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'We Owe Them One' | 10/8/1977 | See Source »

...obvious, so predictable, a syndrome. The high school bigshot comes to the Home of The Bigshots and gets his ego smashed right off the bat. So he spends most of his conscious energy working out a strategy to piece it back together. A woman, of course, is prime target for his peacockery, meat for his projected fantasies. But if she slights him, however inadvertently, he takes it as a threat...

Author: By Emily Fisher, | Title: Goodbye to All That, and Good Riddance | 9/1/1973 | See Source »

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