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Dear Dean Lewis, Dean Knowles and President Rudenstine: They say that alums really hold sway over fair Harvard. And the Senior Gift people said that if I really wanted to effect change, I should donate to the University and write letters to the top brass. So I write you today, as an alumnus and modest donor, with the hope that these new-found designations hold you interest better than my role as a squawking newspaper writer...
Tarnishing the Brass...
Without any clues from the Radcliffe brass, RCAA was hamstrung in planning for the future, let alone in dealing with frazzled alums...
...must have had in mind was his firm push to get the P.L.A. out of business. For more than a decade, P.L.A. generals have been fighting to make money, not war. At one point, the military controlled nearly 20,000 companies employing more than 16 million people. Top P.L.A. brass, often ditching combat boots for tasseled loafers, were common sights at properties that included hotels, telecommunications services, pharmaceutical concerns and even airlines. Less public was the fact that some of the nation's vital naval and air bases had become smuggling hubs for everything from cigarettes to cement. The handsome...
WINNER: Heston; in a verbal duel, he showed the most brass...