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...easing access to Sadat and giving journalists almost daily nuggets of news about his Middle East peace efforts, Bashir has been trying to project Sadat as a paradigm of moderation. When that image was threatened by the breakdown of talks at Aswan last March, Bashir lined up interviews for his boss with U.S. news organizations to explain Egypt's position. Bashir was a key figure behind the extensive sightseeing tours for Henry Kissinger during his Middle East peace shuttles, tours that turned evening news programs round the world into virtual travelogues for Egypt...
Although a breakdown by individual houses was not available, Garrett said that for the week, 878 interhouse meals were eaten at the Quad dining halls, while 2216, mainly lunches, were eaten elsewhere by Quad residents. The figures for Dunster-Mather were 940 and 1698, respectively, she said...
Although the Faculty at the Business School numbers only around 180, in 1973-74 the outside activity of faculty and administrators accounted for a total of 3802 "man days," a Business School report shows. A breakdown of this outside work indicates that 2294 of these days went to consulting, 708 to directorships, and 41 to trusteeships and ownership of companies...
Samp added, however, that a breakdown by district reveals that although many Harvard Students registered to vote few showed up at the polls yesterday...
...With the breakdown of tonality, the necessity for dissonances to resolve to consonances similarly disappeared. Large sections of music could no longer be draped on conventional cadential patterns or sequences. The composer was left with no rules and no guidelines-nothing but the twelve tones and the desperate need to organize them coherently. On the brink of what he saw as musical chaos, Schoenberg stopped composing until he could create a new system for organizing his materials and justifying his decisions, a new framework of music...