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By rejecting substantive reform, the Faculty Council has chosen to preserve the CRR's essentially rigged bias. The committee, descendant of those established in the wake of the 1969 riots that were explicitly designed to control student dissent, retains procedures that stack the deck against any defendant.
Somehow that personal relationship survives today. Jeep buyers seem undaunted by the $12,000 starting price of AMC's new top of the line Wagoneer Limited, which has almost every luxury-car feature and for which there is a long waiting list. Sales of the least expensive $5,000...
Weld will probably have a place in the future of Massachusetts politics even if he loses to Bellotti. A direct descendant of the philanthropist who gave Harvard Weld Hall, the 32-year-old Weld is steeped in Yankee and Ivy League tradition. He possesses a powerful ego, a sharp mind...
Winthrop--a descendant of John Winthrop, the first governor of Massachusetts, and a distant cousin of the John Winthrop who served as president of Harvard in the late 18th century--campaigned with the promise of deemphasizing the role the chairman will play in directing the Student Assembly.
Revolutionary War buffs came to New Jersey from as far away as California, Florida and Ontario to replay the battle. They included a seventh-generation descendant of Molly Pitcher-Elizabeth Hays, 17, of Carlisle, Pa.-who carried water to parched Continental cannoneers, as her ancestor had done 200 years earlier...