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This weekend's Coast Guard tournament did nothing to dispel those thoughts...
...happens, the admissions office's new film strikes some of the same notes in trying to dispel myths about Harvard. It emphasizes that Harvard is not only a mecca for rich, white WASPS, but rather a meeting-place for people with all types of interests and abilities. During the past year, the admissions office has increased the number of students it sends out into the field to recruit, rewritten many of its brochures, and contacted minority alumni and 10,000 high school guidance counselors around the country to enlist support. All this new propaganda and increased communications effort is designed...
...year again. The body stiffens, the bones grow cold, and we are standing helpless inside the door awaiting the arrival of our monsters. Each year we perform this ritual, following the Druids in their annual practice of calling forth the terrifying spirits of the age in an effort to dispel them. These are not children-no diminutive, sweet-voiced ghosts and witches reaching timidly for corn candy. They are the real monsters of our times, and they are not so easily appeased. Brace yourself. The moon is hidden in the clouds, the house as quiet as a tomb. And here...
Olivas' "report" did little to dispel doubts about the official government version. Amadeo Seno, the commission's deputy counsel, told newsmen last week that he had found a number of contradictions in Olivas' testimony. Four hours after Aquino was killed, Seno noted, Olivas had described the assassin as being 5 ft. 6 in. tall. But the physician who performed the autopsy later reported that Galman was 5 ft. 9 in., or ¼ in. taller than Aquino. Galman's height is a crucial clue in determining whether he was tall enough to walk behind Aquino...
...also able to present Moscow with a START proposal that enjoys strong bipartisan support. Said Kenneth Duberstein, the presidential assistant who helped to put the package together: "It gives a signal to the Soviets that we are united." Not least of all, Reagan may have been able to dispel his image as an inflexible hard-liner and defuse the arms-control issue before the 1984 elections. Said one of his senior advisers: "This is what we should have been doing a year...