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...group's founders said there was a lack of student interest in the last Italian club at Harvard because it excluded students who could not speak Italian. The defunct group, Lo Stivale, was intended chiefly as a forum for Italian-speaking students...
...proxy battles go, the fight for Hollywood Park racetrack ranks as a minor contest. But the cast of characters could have been plucked from the plot of a Dick Francis novel and plunked down in an episode of Dynasty. In fact, actor John Forsythe, the patriarch of the defunct TV show, is a star defender of Majorie Everett, the eccentric chairwoman of the company that manages the track in Inglewood, Calif...
POTSDAM, N.Y.--The Clarkson fraternity bell at soon-to-be-defunct Walker Arena tolled for the last time on the Harvard men's hockey team, as the Golden Knights rolled over the Crimson, 7-5, here in faraway Potsdam, N.Y., Saturday night...
...former head of a private think tank, had been accused of being a key organizer of the Tiananmen Square protests that the government brutally crushed in June 1989. After the crackdown, Chen went underground with his wife and several friends, including Wang Juntao, 32, a former editor of the defunct Economic Studies Weekly. Late last year the pair topped a secret government wanted list of pro- democracy leaders. Arrested a few months later while trying to escape abroad, Chen and Wang are detained in Qincheng, a maximum-security prison outside Beijing...
Nobody can accuse Gonick of lack of ambition. The author of the Cartoon Guide to Genetics, used in Harvard genetics course and the now-defunct weekly Cartoon Kitchen has his work cut out for him: cartooning the entire history of humankind. After leaving Harvard's math department in 1972, Gonick has managed to produce seven "volumes" (read: comic books) of History so far, up to the time of Alexander the Great...