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From Hanover, N.H., to Bloomington, Ind., to Houston, Tex., to nearby Wellesley, the talk occasionally turns to the Harvard president search and what it would mean if the committee asks the local chief executive to take...
...Skogfjorden, 18-year-old "Torgeir," Daniel Howland from Bloomington, Minn., says, "I tried to hate it" when his parents sent him here at 14. He loved it, paid his own way with scholarship help for two more years, and today speaks fluent Norwegian as one of the teachers. He is speaking with difficulty just now because a beginning class has covered him with paper tags: TENNER on his teeth, EN MUNN on his mouth, EN NESE on his nose and so on. He is a huge, powerfully built youth, amiably playing the gawk for his adoring students...
There are some sharp challenges to the poll's roseate view of American wedlock. Says June Reinisch, director of the Kinsey Institute in Bloomington, Ind.: "We estimate that approximately 37% of married men and 29% of married women have at least one extramarital affair." A survey conducted by Lillian Rubin, a sociologist at Queens College in New York City, shows a 40% infidelity rate for spouses. Greeley and Harris have two explanations for the disparity between their poll's results and the conventional wisdom: 1) most sexual surveys are either obsolete or unscientific; 2) people are victims of what...
...cloudy at night/ What so loudly we sang as the daylight's last cleaning." An immigrant Hungarian opera singer performing at a benefit showed Yankee ingenuity when he drew on the cliches of his adopted land, belting out, "Bombs bursting in air, George Washington was there." A former Miss Bloomington, Minn., blew her chance to break into the big time when she sang the anthem before a Minnesota Twins game. By the time she got to the "land of the free," she was in the land of the hopelessly confused. "Aw, nuts," she muttered into the microphone, and gave...
...loss marked the second straight defeat for the Crimson (2-3 overall, 0-1 Ivy League), which fell to nationally ranked Indiana, 7-2, in Bloomington last Sunday. But with both losses coming to teams outside the region--Indiana and Stanford were new additions to Harvard's schedule this fall--neither result should affect the Crimson's standing in the Northeast...