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...house masters. The Dean of the College meets with house residents, and students participate on the master selection committee. Such an outrageously progressive decision-making process should serve as a model for major appointment decisions, and other choices that affect the University's community, its neighbors, and those in far-away places who it decides to take under its wing...

Author: By Evan O. Grossman, | Title: Behind Harvard's Liberal Veneer | 2/5/1986 | See Source »

...numerous nights on the road spent persuading strange girls at far-away colleges to let a few players throw their sleeping bags on the floor, ultimately charming the ladies into preparing a pre-game brunch the next morning...

Author: By David L. Yermack, | Title: Bundles of Roy | 6/10/1982 | See Source »

...maintains Schlesinger, is also coming back into vogue. The Agency under director William Casey seems a throwback to "the freewheeling days of the 1950s when the CIA believed it was omnipotent and could shape the destinies of far-away countries. Now with its new power to intervene domestically, God knows what will happen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stephen Schlesinger | 5/4/1982 | See Source »

...workers who supported Reagan probably don't care that he offered little but a far-away trickle-down effect to workers without powerful unions behind them; that Reagan opposed any advance of the American trade union movement; or that the proposed rearmament of America would be at the expense of the CETA and Social Security payments. So, it is up to us to wonder exactly what if any solidarity exists among American working people in the United States. Although union leaders defend the air traffic controllers strike officially, they must have little sympathy for PATCO because the growing trend...

Author: By Siddhartha Mazumdar, | Title: Labor's Two Worlds | 9/18/1981 | See Source »

...into different levels. The actors, then, are both distant and dwarfed, surrounded by space and yet cramped; and against the purple sky of the second act, with rain falling steadily behind the house, really from the house, the director, Jenny Cornuelle, and the designers have concocted a haunting, far-away image of little people trapped by external and possibly internal forces. It is a valid and arresting picture, but it has been achieved at the expense of the rest of the production...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: So Far Away | 11/18/1980 | See Source »

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