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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard also turns the crank on its $250 million campaign this weekend. While Princeton fans can get revved up just by being around a football stadium, Harvard alums are more sophisticated and will give regardless of whether the teams even play. But if you want to get the fundraisers psyched, a win would be nice...

Author: By David A. Wilson, | Title: Of Machines and Alumni | 10/27/1979 | See Source »

City council candidates all, they took off the gloves last week for the final stretch of the campaign, adding fire to the contest as they explored the city in search of stray voters...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Scramble | 10/27/1979 | See Source »

...South Africa debate decreases in intensity this year, it seems already possible that nuclear power--and especially Harvard's major investments in it--might replace last year's campaign for divestiture...

Author: By James L. Tyson, | Title: Harvard's Nuclear Ties | 10/26/1979 | See Source »

Part of the reason for the failure of progressive forces in recent years has been the left's misplaced emphasis on electoral politics. In the midst of a Presidential campaign in which all three Democratic non-candidates have been wooing the left--more with images of idealism and hope than with tangible proposals or commitments--the left must be careful not to make the mistakes it has repeatedly made in the past which have cost us our influence on national policy. The left must not be seduced or deluded into backing one of the three in the belief that...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: What's Left in 1980 | 10/26/1979 | See Source »

None of them is an acceptable choice. Carter has reneged on almost every important campaign promise he made the last time around, which should come as no surprise since he made contradictory promises, depending on his audience. Remember slashing the fat out of the defense budget? Remember overhauling a tax system that was a disgrace to the human race? Remember full employment? Remember Paul Warnke, ditched after negotiating SALT II to pacify the Neanderthals, and Andy Young, shot down by the Israeli lobby after talking to people of the Palestinian persuasion? Forget Jimmy Carter...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: What's Left in 1980 | 10/26/1979 | See Source »

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