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Committee members and other advocates of more restrictive zoning contend that developers have threatened the neighborhood's existence by bringing white collar firms and luxury housing into the blue collar neighborhoods of Cambridge...
...NOTION OF DESIGNER UNDERWEAR strikes many people as more than a trifle silly. These people contend that the significance of the "designer" in designer clothes, whether manifest in a signature, a monogram or an animal insignia, is sheer status, and they are correct. They further reason that unless you are grossly inept or the subject of peculiar conspiracies by your peers, almost no one ever sees your underwear. The act of communicating status through clothes relies on visual verification. If you can't see Mr. Jones's skivvies, they can't impress you. And if he whispered to you across...
...idea seemed especially daring for Gannett: The country's sixth largest media company (reported 1981 sales: $1.4 billion), it specializes in small, mostly monopoly markets. Of its 88 dailies, only three, including morning-evening combinations, have weekday circulations above 150,000. Some critics contend that the new paper is a personal bid for recognition by the driven maverick Neuharth; they find evidence even in the office suites of USA Today, which are decorated in black, white and gray, the only colors Neuharth wears in public. Says one Gannett insider: "It's Al's ego trip." Responds Neuharth...
...common problem faced by most minority groups is a rift between juniors and seniors and younger members of the group who, the older ones contend, don't yet understand the history of minority groups on campus. Thus they tend to be somewhat more "conservative" than many upperclass members. In the Asian American Association (AAA), for example, president Andrew Ting '83 says that last year freshmen turned out in large numbers at AAA meetings, and tended to vote more conservatively than the older members. Ting says this is a major reason the AAA did not join most groups last spring...
...despite the presence of impressive wide receivers Paul Farnham and Kelly Brothers, Brown will have to rely on its backfield to generate offense on the ground. The offensive line should facilitate a good running game, but without a Harmon or an Andrie, Brown will find it difficult to contend with Cornell, Dartmouth, Yale and Harvard...