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...suffering race relations at Harvard are not analogous to my "on the blink computer." If my printer isn't printing, I can turn to page 47 for a checklist of possibilities and then fix it. But I can't really do that with race relations. It just doesn't work and it has an ugly flavor to it. Let me help y'all out: the key to fixing what is "broken" with race relations at Harvard lies not in fine tuning something on the surface-like tightening a screw. It lies in preventing it from getting broken in the first...

Author: By Nancy RAINE Reyes, | Title: Fix Race Relations | 3/16/1996 | See Source »

...President looked up. "He had this pained look on his face, like, 'I guess I've got to go back inside now,'" McLarty recalls of that late-spring afternoon. "And I said, 'Mr. President, it's O.K. I just have a checklist. Let's do it here.'" And so for 15 minutes, as the Commander in Chief practiced his chip shots and short strokes, McLarty tagged along, running down items of business. "We should do this more often," McLarty said when he was finished. Replied Clinton hopefully: "Yeah, it kinda works, doesn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN GOLF WE TRUST | 8/28/1995 | See Source »

Cottrell took up the study of birds and volunteered for the Museum of Comparative Zoology, where he worked untill 1988. He was a director of the Massachusetts Audubon Society and served as an editor of James Lee Peters Checklist of Birds of the World...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Community BRIEF | 5/26/1995 | See Source »

After 241 American troops on a pointless mission in Beirut were killed by a suicide bomber in 1983, the Reagan Administration struggled to draw lessons from the disaster. The next year, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger offered a checklist for evaluating the future uses of military forces abroad. Such actions should be necessary to protect vital national interests, he advised, and permit the use of powerful force to achieve a decisive victory. The objective must be clear and attainable by military means, and it must be supported by Congress and the people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: vVIETNAM: LESSONS FROM THE LOST WAR | 4/24/1995 | See Source »

...worry, though. With our handy Harvard Student's Holiday Card Checklist, you won't forget anyone you can't afford to slight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: When You Care Enough... | 12/9/1993 | See Source »

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