Word: broads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Minority leaders on campus should think hard about why 59 students nominally interested in civil rights law are rejecting a boycott being ardently pushed by a broad coalition of minority and other progressive groups on campus. There are no doubt a wide variety of reasons...
...shrimp cocktail and steak, and Bok was careful to insure that meal-time conversation did not stray from social chatter to serious negotiation. Some city councilors complained after the gathering that discussions had been too limited and that University officials would not respond to general questions of policy on broad Harvard-city issues...
...legislation will give the government broad authority to do battle with Sicily's deeply entrenched Mafia. The new high commissioner is empowered to tap telephones of suspected gangsters and to look into bank records to trace transfers of capital. Another new statute allows interrogation of witnesses behind closed doors, a provision calculated to break Sicily's code of omertà, a vow of silence by those who have witnessed crimes...
Selective acceptance of prisoners sounds like a screwy refraction of college admissions, one where only the least promising, the worst and the dumbest, are allowed entrance. But there is, surprisingly, broad expert agreement that a large minority of people going to prison do not deserve that special bruising. Like war, imprisonment should be a government's last resort. It is too precious a resource, too expensive and damaging, to waste on the run of criminals...
...This time, however, she seems mostly at sea, or up the fjord. Director John Neville (who also chews through the role of Pastor Manders) has staged Ibsen as if the playwright were the resident bard of the Vincent Crummies Acting Company from Nicholas Nickleby: all pregnant pauses, awkward gestures, broad hints and unexpected laughs. Neville's Ghosts seems to have taken a wrong turn in the provinces and wound up, startled and unprepared, on the main stem. -By Jay Cocks