Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...audience and they love it." The morning after Berg's death a steady stream of mourners filed slowly past his rented condominium. Fans telephoned Berg's KOA outlet from some 30 states. Callers were comforted by KOA disc jockeys sobbing their way through their own shows. A blind man was led to Berg's garage door so that he could put his fingers into the bullet holes. Of this bizarre circus atmosphere, Peter Boyles, a radio talk-show host and close friend of Berg's, said, "Alan would have loved it." And, no doubt, would have...
...Neither parable applies to you. You were born a good Samaritan and prodigality has never been one of your problems. Frankly, I do not know a work of moral fiction that could improve your character, for it has always seemed to your mother and me (admittedly prejudiced but not blind) that your character never needed much improving. I have not known anyone more fairminded, more considerate, more able to swallow disappointment. Not from me did you get these things. Why should I expect to give you something special...
Harvard also wants a real return above inflation. Putting up buildings, luring scholars to the Faculty, and continuing a policy of aid-blind admissions demands that income rise faster than prices. And finally, some of the Crimson pride goes into endowment management: "We want to do competitively well relative to, say, 10 other major institutions," Cabot says...
...Apple, DEC, or IBM personal computer. It should figure out how these can better be integrated into actual coursework. And, most important, the University must insure that poorer students will have the same access to the new technology as their richer colleagues, or else Harvard's policy of aid-blind admissions won't be worth the piece of paper it is written...
...time off job, not one Capital Hill job or journalism internship. Two, Mary and Fernando, went off separately to work in the Catholic workers movement, dishing out food in soup kitchens and doing other volunteer work. Two took jobs at schools, Kathy teaching "survival skills" at a school for blind children, and Rich teaching at a private school in Brookline. Tim went off to Africa to do Mennonite church work. At the other extreme, two Lionel residents, Shawn and Suzy, were both working at Mug and Muffin...