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...University will increase security around the Union dorms in the wake of a recent 30-person brawl on the steps of Pennypacker Hall involving Cambridge youths and Harvard freshmen, the Freshman Dean's Office (FDO) announced this week...
Your article on the U.S. beer brawl had several analogies with events in Britain over the past decade. In the early 1970s the big companies monopolized the United Kingdom markets by buying up many smaller breweries, with the result that many beers became bland, sterile and uninteresting. This led to an enormous consumer backlash. Subsequently, the surviving small breweries, which used traditional techniques for producing flavorful rather than pasteurized beer, have flourished...
Baseball, as Bill Veeck said, is meant to be fun. The trouble with Steinbrenner is that he manages to turn it into an Oedipal brawl that reduces his athletes to twitching depressives. Baseball reflects the surrounding culture, of course. Americans may get the sport they deserve: corporate, grandiose, soulless. To say that, however, might be to say that we are all responsible for Steinbrenner. That is going much...
Some unforeseen consequences of that decision, however, now threaten to ignite an international brawl. Trouble reached a climax last week when Treasury Secretary Donald Regan refused to grant cheap federal financing to aid the ailing Budd Co. of Troy, Mich., in a bid to build the cars...
...confirmed. It remains one of La Tour's masterpieces. Cleaned of grime and later repaints, it has a crispness and specificity of color, like taffeta in spring sunshine; and to see it in a room with seven other La Tours, including the Wrightsman Magdalen and The Musicians' Brawl, is to realize how the traits of style cited against it by detractors-the theatrical "unreality" of costume, the clear, generalized volumes of cylindrical arm or egg-shaped head-actually connect it to the rest of La Tour's oeuvre and help certify it as an autograph work...