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...Being on a college campus, I thought it would be the easiest way to make money," said Christopher S. Pascucci '84, who conceived the event...

Author: By Michael C.D. Okwu, | Title: PBH Committee Will Launch Jog-A-Thon for the Homeless | 11/3/1983 | See Source »

Sevcenko would probably be pleased with this description, as he explains, "I dabble in various aspects of the Byzantine history and literature," adding, "The easiest way of combining them is through intellectual history--first, in the sense of what went into the heads of the Byzantine elite." Having spent many years analyzing the first tier and its complexities. Sevcenko says that he is now studying the thinking of the so-called "second tier" of citizens below the elite--the sort "that determines the character of an epoch...

Author: By Michael J. Abramowitz, | Title: Byzantine Mysteries Unraveled | 11/1/1983 | See Source »

...easiest way to praise a film is to call it poetic. The easiest way to dump on a film is to call it unrealistic. Believability is the line drawn in the dirt; on either side are warring sensibilities, rival gangs of moviegoers or critics. Seen this way, the defenseless movie is reduced to a Rorschach inkblot, an excuse for prolonging the debate between fantasy and naturalism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Time Bomb | 10/24/1983 | See Source »

...three of Harvard's double matches went to three sets. The first-seeded duo of Evans and Boss chalked up the easiest victory, with a 6-2, 1-6, 6-1 win, while Schulman and junior Deanne Loonin won the number-three doubles match, 3-6, 7-6, 6-3. But the second-seeded pair of Kaufman and Smith suffered Harvard's only loss of the day, B.U.'s Sheehan and Dawn Olson taking...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Netwomen Slam B.U., Take All Six Singles Matches | 10/6/1983 | See Source »

...statutory crime, and probably every rapist ought to be locked up for some time. They are real criminals. Of course, a parent who willfully scalds a child's arm is a criminal. Of course, a man who stomps his pregnant wife is a criminal. These cases are, ironically, the easiest ones to think about: when the violence is so ugly and utterly inexcusable, you just throw the book at the sick bastards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Private Violence | 9/5/1983 | See Source »

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