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SANDERS Theater. Originally, it was built as a memorial to the brave sons of Harvard who gave their lives in the World Wars. Unfortunately, of late, it has come to represent something far more trivial: the Core Curriculum. No longer a haven for heroes, it is now home to "Ec 10," "Justice," "Jesus and the Moral Life," and the newest addition, "Cultural Revolution...
...Theodore Liazos '89 urged the council to be brave and pass the resolution against the clubs' practices. "There are a number of people here tonight who want us to be timid," he said, criticizing those who spoke against the resolution...
...easy: he is tall and athletic looking, but not especially rugged. His body has the long-muscled grace you see in the male half of a figure-skating pair. On to the hard part: he is quiet, sensible, mannerly, respectful to his parents and, as the Boy Scouts say, "brave, clean and reverent." Clearly there is an image problem here. It does not help, in the iron hat and cow horns department, that Zurbriggen is an exceptionally pious Roman Catholic, who confounds the European sporting press by praying at least twice a day. He is a loner...
...night of Feb. 8, while most Americans are sensibly warming themselves from the glow of TV tubes, upwards of 200,000 Iowans will brave the harsh elements to attend political meetings in 2,943 precincts across the state. Their ostensible purpose is to pick delegates to attend obscure county conventions in March, but the results will be heralded in 76-trombone fashion as the first referendum on the 1988 field. In one of American democracy's strangest eccentricities, these 200,000 dutiful citizens from an atypical prairie and river-soil state could have far more say in sorting...
...College, Oxford, and itching to write a book about a failed nationalist uprising in 1867. The final skirmish, known as the Battle of Clonbrony Wood, has become exaggerated in story and barroom ditty: "Let all true Irishmen be good,/ And fight for what they hold./ Like all those heroes brave and bold,/ Who held Clonbrony Wood...