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HARVARD, Mass.--As America's oldest university, Harvard likes to boast of its uniqueness. After all, there's one and only one Harvard, right? Think again...

Author: By Sewell Chan, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: 'Harvard' Is More Than A University | 9/13/1996 | See Source »

HARVARD, Mass.--As America's oldest university, Harvard likes to boast of its uniqueness. After all, there's one and only one Harvard, right? Think again...

Author: By Sewell Chan, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: 'Harvard' Is More Than A University | 9/9/1996 | See Source »

...women boast strong senior and sophomore classes, returning almost all their top runners from a 4-0 team last year...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: Women's Harriers Look Good; Men Untested | 9/9/1996 | See Source »

...Grace of My Heart, in which a songwriter very much like Carole King meets a songwriter very much like Brian Wilson; and That Thing You Do! with writer-director Tom Hanks playing a record-label exec who manages a one-hit pop group. Both films boast new songs composed in period style. And The Preacher's Wife will offer Whitney Houston putting over surefire spirituals with a gospel choir. That's the kind of musical both Variety and Billboard can understand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FALL PREVIEW | 9/9/1996 | See Source »

...periods of inaction and illness have led to passivity and long hospital stays, reminding the Russians of the Brezhnev-Chernenko era." How long Yeltsin's latest recovery will last is anybody's guess: "Over last 80 years, the Soviet school of medicine has attained only one major achievement to boast: it has honed to perfection the craft of boosting up Politburo members and keeping them going, even if they were not at the top of their capacity to rule the country," says Zarakhovich. Yeltsin is now putting the Soviet school of medicine to its toughest test. -->