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...cred ible third-rank winter resort. This is a lot higher up in the rankings than any visitor to the grim and snowless 1980 Olympics would place Lake Placid, N.Y. (First-rank resorts like Saint-Moritz or Sun Valley generally don't want the Olympics these days. Why disrupt an already profitable business...
...remove any excuse in future for selective punishment of hecklers after the fact, and to insure for speakers the opportunity to air their views, the University should adopt a comprehensive policy similar to the one already successfully in place at the Kennedy School. Hecklers who seriously disrupt University-sponsored events should first be asked to respect the rights of the speaker, and, if they refuse, should be escorted from the hall. By adopting and publicizing such a policy. Harvard will be able to adequately insure order a public events and students will not be subject to retroactive discipline...
...population and 80 percent of its industry. The strategic vulnerability of this heartland until the Six Day War put Israel in a completely untenable position--Arab armored columns and artillery possessed the ability to cut Israel in half, to destroy its major residential and industrial centers, and to disrupt its lines of communication and transportation. This ability has grown immensely, in terms of military strength, with the help of the Soviet Union and petro dollars...
Residents of Cambridge and Greater Boston are bracing themselves this week, as the Harvard Lampoon runs its newly elected editors through a gamut of pranks which traditionally disrupt lectures and meals and attract crowds along sidewalks...
John Stockwell, the highest-ranking former CIA official to speak critically of the agency, told a supportive Sanders Theater audience of 200 that the CIA's covert actions "disrupt the political and social fabric" of developing countries and threaten "the fate of the earth...