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scholarship must defer, they contend...
With the victory, the Crimson enters a critical Spring Break period. The squad will play three games over vacation, with the first being the most important. Penn travels to Cambridge Saturday for an Ivy League game at Ohiri Field--one that the Crimson must win to contend for the league title...
Archivists and some historians contend it is necessary to limit access to recent materials in order to encourage donors to leave full and frank records. To have more complete long-term historical records, the archives must protect the privacy of the living people mentioned in the material, they argue...
...Educational Fund, she met her husband Peter, a fellow attorney and an adviser to Senator Robert Kennedy. Convinced she could achieve more as an advocate than as a litigant for the poor, Edelman moved to Washington in 1968 and five years later founded the C.D.F. Says Edelman: "I still contend our problem is not one of law but of making laws work, getting them funded, riding the bureaucrats and enabling people to take advantage of what Congress intended...
...charges last fall when they discovered a North Korean newspaper article reprinted on wall posters at Seoul National University. Banners urging unification of the two Koreas, in terms used by North Korea, later cropped up during a four-day student occupation of Seoul's Konkuk University. Though radical leaders contend that police planted the provocative materials, many students champion unification with the North. Says a student-union president: "The North and South are one people. Unification is a nationalistic goal, not an ideological one." Adds a frequent demonstrator: "Unification of the fatherland is our main goal...