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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like Harvard's Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility, the Radcliffe group will examine and recommend vote on proxy statements the college receives from corporations in its $20 million common stock investment portfolio...

Author: By Burton F. Jablin, | Title: An ACSR of One's Own | 4/21/1979 | See Source »

John Cushnahan, general secretary of Northern Ireland's Alliance Party, said, "My party is convinced that a partnership government would develop a new common loyalty between Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland...

Author: By Daniel A. Carroll, | Title: Politician Discusses Northern Ireland | 4/19/1979 | See Source »

...with an inventive twist of probability theory. Civilization has grown so complex, he maintains, that it is governed only by laws of random chance. As a result, the protagonist--and the reader--is alienated from the reality he thinks he can understand and control. In the depersonalized modern world, common sense has become nearly meaningless. The effect is eerie and sobering...

Author: By Peter M. Engel, | Title: Murder by Chance | 4/17/1979 | See Source »

This uneasiness is a common response to films Paul Schrader (Blue Collar, Hardcore) has a hand in. They always begin as intriguing notions, but Schrader is willing to sell out themes, characterization, simple dramatic logic in order to serve up a socko scene or a happy ending. One guesses that here the producer and co-writer started out to make a trendy feminist tract about taking just revenge on male inadequacy, then found that Diane desperately needed humanization. Star and director obliged, but the result is an incoherent mess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Revenger's Tale | 4/16/1979 | See Source »

...common consent, the most spectacular hole at Yale is the ninth, a 220-yd. par-three that calls for a tee shot from an elevated promontory that must carry over the water below to a split-level, slipper-shaped green. The narrow green is encircled by trees...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Linksters Lag in Big Three Tournament at Yale | 4/16/1979 | See Source »

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