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...were those 97 parents given the red carpet treatment by President Bok and University hall brass two weekends ago? Organizers said they were just showing Harvard off to people without any previous use to the school. But the real reason, according to sources, is to tap a new and potentially lucrative non-alumni source of fundraising--the nouveau riche parent...
Software is the magic carpet to the future...
While at Harvard, Oppens also attended a dinner in her honor with Radcliffe President Matima S. Horner. "She's getting the red-carpet treatment," Weinfeld said...
...Halevy: "They rolled up to the Awali River in cars and trucks of every age and description. The vehicles were crammed with children, mothers and grandmothers and piled high with blankets, mattresses, ancient refrigerators, rusty sewing machines and, here and there, a new color TV or even a Persian carpet. On a single day last week some 4,000 to 6,000 refugees crossed the Awali, rumbling over a bridge and through an Israeli checkpoint at the rate of three cars or trucks a minute from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Most of the refugees were silent; the only consistent...
...afternoon on Tuesday the fighting had subsided, and on Wednesday morning we drove across town. A carpet hung limply from a gaping hole in a highrise. The thick steel cable of an elevator shaft dangled crazily out of a police station. No armed men were in evidence, sandbagged army checkpoints had been abandoned, and traffic flowed freely for the first time in weeks. But clearly the conflict was far from over. Militiamen had thrown up barricades around the district of Maasra, while fighting still raged along the green line that separates Christian East Beirut from the predominantly Muslim western half...