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...along, they were really rooting for Harvard to "kick some intellectual butt." That's why they paraded the Calculators', Bidders', Checkmaters' and Talkers' national championships so prominently at the bottom of page 7, after burying the Icemens' NCAA title story under a six-column front page banner headline...
...centuries, Harvard's food has been the deserving butt of campus humor and ill will. In 1638, the first headmaster of the College was fired after serving the students poor quality food. Sad to say, conditions have not improved considerably since. Hard to swallow, difficult to digest and often painful to look at, the daily offerings of Harvard Dining Services are in need of radical overhaul. Several improvements over the past few years have upgraded the quality of Harvard's menu. But among college dining services, Harvard Dining Services is still a lemon...
Nixon, who describes as one of his strengths the "iron butt" necessary for long hours of scholarship, had done all his homework when he met last week for two interviews in his office in Woodcliff Lake, N.J., with TIME chief of correspondents John F. Stacks and editor at large Strobe Talbott. "What is striking is that he regards these interviews as serious works and prepares for them," says Talbott. "He works out his talking points in a detailed fashion. He has a definite agenda...
...eventually get immune to it, but sometimes I lay awake at night. Sometimes I feel I've been working my butt off all this past year, and I haven't got anything done. It's a frame of mind. I go home, my kid says to me, "Dad, what's the matter? You look awful. Did you have a hard day?" I say, "I must have had a hard day; I'm totally exhausted...
During the heyday of takeover lending and junk-bond financing, the patrician investment firm Morgan Stanley was often the butt of ridicule. While more aggressive firms plunged into risky new techniques, Morgan, despite a leading role in corporate takeovers, seemed stuck in its stodgy habit of underwriting stock for blue-chip companies and selling investment-grade bonds. The new breed was playing high-stakes Monopoly, the joke went, while the stuffed shirts at Morgan were playing Trivial Pursuit. But no one is laughing at Morgan's expense anymore. The firm, founded in 1935, is the most profitable on Wall Street...