Word: choses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...point is that Harvard fed the problem of underage drinking by not restricting it previously. Now Harvard changes its mind not because of a belief in the law but because of the threat of a lawsuit. The Harvard administration knew about underage drinking for a long time and chose to ignore and even contribute to the problem. Because of this the administration has an obligation to ease the student body into their new restrictions, rather than clamping them down immediately...
...Harvard's tradition of choosing great pieces of architecture]," said Gleason Professor of Fine Arts Seymour Slive, who led the committee searching for the perfect Sackler. "We wanted to make a great work of architecture. We looked at the work of 70 architects, boiled it down to eight and chose the best one," he said...
...past year, 22 people have been killed in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia, where native Melanesians seeking an independent nation are pitted against French settlers who want rule by Paris to continue. But there was surprising calm last week when voters chose a 46-member territorial congress as the first step in France's plan to give New Caledonia greater autonomy before a referendum on limited independence is held in 1987. The peaceful balloting was due in part to 162 French magistrates who served as poll watchers, and 3,500 French gendarmes...
While at this venue the Playboy publicist directed the models poses, Mensa specimen Selig says the seven intellectuals chose their own fantasy for their pictorials in the famous men's magazine...
...weeks and on Broadway in November, the revival does not overawe her. "I don't think very much about what is dangerous or not," says the former sex symbol. "I can't panic. I don't have the time." To make her task even more unaccustomed, she chose to play the spinsterish New Englander, Hannah, and turned down the saucier part of Maxine, the innkeeper. Does she miss those earlier seductive roles? "Time has passed," she says, seemingly without regret...